Purging Queues
If you would like to purge the Publish Queue, Deploy Queue, Search Queue, and/or Workflow Queue, you can use the Purge Queue tool. In addition, you can view the number of messages in each queue.
You must have system administrator privileges to use this tool.
You can access this tool from your Windows desktop by navigating to .
To use this program, select one or more queues that you wish to purge and click the Start button. Queued messages will then be deleted. You can click the Refresh button to update the number of queued messages listed.