Monitor MSMQ time of arrival - powershell

Question

I'm trying to put together a script to monitor the MSMQ on a server. I found this and it works like a charm but I also need to get the time of arrival.
When using the Get-Member cmdlet I get a list of properties but none of the seem to get me what I need.
Does anyone know how to get time of arrival?
/G

Answer 1

Finally figured it out.
[String]$cName = $Env:COMPUTERNAME
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Messaging") | out-null
[System.Messaging.MessageQueue[]]$queues = [System.Messaging.MessageQueue]::GetPrivateQueuesByMachine($cName.ToLower())
Foreach ($queue in $queues) {
$queue.MessageReadPropertyFilter.SetAll()
try {
[System.Messaging.Message]$message = $queue.Peek(10)
Write-Host $queue.QueueName $message.ArrivedTime
}
catch {
#Write-Host "Timeout"
}
}
The trick is to set the MessageReadPropertyFilter. It is possible to set each property separately but this will do for now.

Answer 2

$qname = "<YourQueueNameHere>"
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Messaging") | out-null
$q = new-object System.Messaging.MessageQueue($qname)
$msgs = $q.GetAllMessages()
foreach ( $msg in $msgs )
{
Write-Host $msg.ArrivedTime
}
Documentation for Message here.
Documentation for Message.ArrivedTime here.

Answer 3

Here is what worked for me. In my case, the script counts how many messages have been received for the past hour.
$QueueArray = "MyQueue1.ERRORS", "MyQueue2.ERRORS";
foreach ($queue in $QueueArray)
{
# Create each MSMQ object
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Messaging") | Out-Null
$MessageQueue = New-Object System.Messaging.MessageQueue (".\private$\" + $queue)
# Get the amount of the messages in the queue for the past hour.
$MessageQueue.MessageReadPropertyFilter.SetAll()
$PastHour = (Get-Date).AddHours(-1)
$countFailedMessages = 0
foreach ($message in $MessageQueue )
{
if ($PastHour -lt $message.ArrivedTime)
{
#Write-Host $message.ArrivedTime
$countFailedMessages++
#Write-Host $countFailedMessages
}
}
Write-Host $queue `t $countFailedMessages "failed messages for the past hour"
}