Microsoft has confirmed that the December 2025 security updates are breaking Message Queuing (MSMQ) functionality, affecting enterprise applications and Internet Information Services (IIS) websites.

The December security updates are disrupting Message Queuing in Windows 10, Server 2016, and 2019, leading to error messages.

In part 1 of this series, I detailed issues around PCI and message queuing. Here in part 2, we will get more into the nitty-gritty of how to ensure PCI DSS compliance when dealing with message queues.

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Message queues are named entities (IBM calls them objects in the most abstract sense of the word) where messages are stored by a given application program, and are retrieved by another application ...

This month's extended security update for Windows 11 broke Message Queuing (MSMQ), which is typically used by enterprises to ...

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In this final piece, I will continue with some more detailed items on how to ensure PCI message queue compliance. In part 1 of this series, I detailed issues around PCI and message queuing. In part 2 ...