Thanks for your posts, can I get back to you mid next week with the SB setup.

I can see that I am getting the http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQL/ServiceBroker/EndDialog

Message returned, the sproc is designed to end the conversation with cleanup at this point. So the conversations are NOT hanging about.

I’m working with a one-way conversation.

sys.conversation_endpoints is getting cleared out.

sys.transmission_queue is empty