Microsoft Azure – Installation of Service Bus Explorer

An Azure Service Explorer is a tool that provides advanced features like import and export functionality or the ability to test topics, queues, subscriptions, relay services, notification hubs, and events hubs in Microsoft Azure. The Service Bus Explorer allows clients and users to connect to a Service Bus namespace and to manage messaging queues and topics using a GUI-based tool.

In this article, we will use a use Chocolatey a package manager for Windows which helps us in installing the Service Bus Explorer on your PC or on the Server.

Installation Process:

Step 1: Install Chocolatey

From the Start menu, run the Windows PowerShell application using the Run as administrator privileges. Paste the PowerShell commands shown below into the PowerShell window and press Enter. Wait until the installation is finished.

Run the following command:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; `
[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; `
iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Step 2: Install Service Bus Explorer

Run the following command:

choco install servicebusexplorer

Or, from the Start menu, start a Command Prompt. Paste the commands shown below into the Command Prompt window and press Enter. Wait until the installation is finished and close the Command Prompt window.

choco install servicebusexplorer

That’s it! At this point, you have successfully installed service bus explorer on Azure.