We are currently using it for development, however the last release was Service Bus 1.1 over two years ago.
Should Service Bus for Windows Server be avoided?
With the approaching end of support for Windows Server 2012 (R2) on October 10, 2023, a major replacement of existing systems is on the horizon.
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Blog:Service Bus for Windows Server: A Primer An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a shared messaging layer that gives you a consistent, scalable and flexible means of coordinating across disparate, loosely-connected services to execute business processes.
Service Bus is used to decouple applications and services from each other, providing the following benefits: Load-balancing work across competing workers. Safely routing and transferring data and control across service and application boundaries. Coordinating transactional work that requires a high-degree of ...
Service Bus for Windows Server follows the Component Lifecycle Policy. Service Bus 1.1 is a component of SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, SharePoint Server 2019, SharePoint Server 2016, and SharePoint Server 2013, and follows the lifecycle of its parent product. Support dates are shown in the Pacific Time Zone (PT) - Redmond, WA, USA.
Follow the steps below to use it to connect to your Azure Service Bus: Create an Azure Managed Identity. Give identity access to Azure Service Bus resources. For more details, visit Assign an Azure role for access rights - Azure Service Bus
To make it easy to manage the messages and namespaces via GUI, Microsoft created a desktop application called Service Bus Explorer. This is a very convenient tool for developers and system administrators alike. It works for both ASB and SBWS.
This is a user-defined value that Service Bus can use to identify duplicate messages, if enabled. The lock token of the message as a string. This is the duration, in ticks, that a message is valid. The duration starts from when the message is sent to the Service Bus. System properties - None or Run Details.
Edit: It is officially dead. Microsoft "will not provide an immediate successor for the standalone Service Bus for Windows Server 1.1 product" and it "and will go out of mainstream support on January 9, 2018".
You may want to monitor this Stack Overflow Question (which points to this UserVoice idea) for updates on it being brought to Azure Stack so it can be used on-premise. The latest update from Microsoft was from Sept. 30, 2018 - "Thanks for your feedback. We are pleased to inform you that we are bringing Event Hubs to Azure Stack. We announced Private Preview at Ignite 2018... Service Bus will follow next." As of Dec 2019, Event Hubs is still listed as "IN DEVELOPMENT" on the Azure Stack key capabilities site.
Original answer (Aug 4 '16):
The short answer: Service Bus for Windows Server does have a future as part of Azure Stack but it is not going to be free and will not happen this year (2016).
Apparently the roadmap was announced on May 12 at Integrate 2016 during Clemens Vasters's Service Bus – Roadmap, What’s next? talk. You can listen to the announcements related to Service Bus at about 40:35.
Interesting quotes from the video:
Thanks to user Arunkumar BizTalk360 for pointing us in the right direction in this Microsoft Azure thread
Turns out, it is dead now....
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/collaboration-and-federation-azure-service-bus-messaging-on-premises-futures/
As a consequence, we are announcing today that we will not provide an immediate successor for the standalone Service Bus for Windows Server 1.1 product. Service Bus for Windows Server 1.1 was shipped as a free download that could be installed inside and outside of the Azure Stack precursor Azure Pack. The product is available as a free download and will go out of mainstream support on January 9, 2018, following the regular Microsoft lifecycle policy as published at the initial product release.
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