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How do I uninstall/delete/deactivate MSMQT adapter?

May 18th, 2005 21:13
Mikael Östberg, Balaji Ramachandran, http://www.netologi.se/default.aspx?Contents=BizTalkFAQ

Once installed, you cannot remove the MSMQT adapter! (According to the 
Biztalk 2004 documentation)
However, according to Tomas Restrepo that does not mean it cannot be 
done:
Copied from: http://www.winterdom.com/weblog/archives/000477.html
As it turns out, the only reason that the adapter cannot be removed is 
because it is "Delete Protected", but this protection can be easily 
overriden. Here's how:
1. Shut down the BizTalk Application Host the MSMQT adapter is bound to.
2. Delete all send and receive ports you have bound to the MSMQT 
Adapter using BizTalk Explorer or a similar tool. 
3. Open up the SQL Server management tools (either Enterprise Manager, 
or Query Analizer) and connect to the BizTalk management database 
(usually BizTalkMgmtDb). 
4. Open the adm_Adapter table, and look for the record which has the 
Name column with the "MSMQT" value. 
5. Once located, notice that this record has the Capabilities column 
set to 16495 (0x406F). Here lies the trick: This flag includes the 
eProtocolDeleteProtected (0x0020) flag. What we need to do here is 
modify this value to remove that particular flag. Now, just set the 
value of the Capabilities column to 0x406F &~0x0020 == 0x404F == 16463. 
Make sure you save the changes to the record. 
6. Open the BizTalk Administration Console, look for the MSMQT Adapter, 
righ click on it and select Delete. 
7. Restart your application host.
And that's it. After doing this, you should've been able to remove the 
MSMQT adapter. You're now free, for example, to install the recently 
released MSMQ adapter without having to go through the whole 
unconfigure/reconfigure cycle.
Do this at your own risk; I do not know of any possible side effects of 
doing this (although I haven't noticed any yet) as opposed to doing the 
unconfigure/configure. You probably don't want to do this in a 
production machine, though!
(If you do not want to delete your receive locations (if your goal is 
to switch to the MSQM adapter, for example), just bind them to the File 
adapter while replacing MSMQT with MSMQ adapter.)