In the component services UI, under the clustered instances of MSDTC we are not able to see the properties of one of the instances of DTC. It appears blank with the message : No properties are available on this object. Cause Configuration...

On a windows server 2003, we are not able to start a Queued COM+ application. It fails with the error: 80080005 Server execution failed. In the event logs we see the following entries : Event Type: Error Event Source: COM+ Event Category: (115) Event...

WCF service Pieserver is hosted in IIS 7.5. It is using wshttpbinding. client : console application. We are able to add the service reference but get the exception below when we call any methods on the proxy object : Error Message: System.ServiceModel...

When we browse the web page it loads fine and continues working. Once we close the IIS manager and open it again, the following section gets added to the web.config file automatically : <extensions> <behaviorExtensions> <add...

We are unable to install MSMQ due to error: Triggers transactional component could not be registered in COM+. Error Code: 0x8004e001 Since the error message talks about the transactions, we checked if the MSDTC service is running fine. It was not and...

The COM+ application randomly stops responding. To fix the problem the COM+ application has to be restarted. After some observation the problem appeared to be with reading a custom registry key. We were not able to read registry key while it is in use...

The COM+ application 'eConnect' is unable to complete distributed transactions successfully against the SQL server. It fails with the error : (0x8004E002): The root transaction wanted to commit, but transaction aborted. The eConnect COM+ application...

We are unable to run XA transactions with DB2 server. It fails with the error : Source: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers Parameters: -2147467259 [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Failed to enlist on calling object's transaction Microsoft OLE...

Using Oracle Client version 10g (Windows 2003 SP1) to communicate with the Oracle Database Server (OS : Unix). When we enable the option for Transaction Support to be "Required " in the COM+ application we get the error : New transaction cannot enlist...

On a windows 2003 server, when we open Component services MMC --> complus Applications, we get the following error : Catalog error: An error occured while processing the last operations error code 8000FFFF - Catastrophic Failure the event...

On a two node Windows 2003 SQL server cluster, while running the SP 2 setup for SQL server 2005, we were getting the following error : Error Description : MSP Error: 29549 Failed to install and configure assemblies C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft...

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You run distributed transactions between two machines and they fail with the error "Unable to enlist in a distributed transaction". Troubleshooting Steps f or Windows 2003 SP1 and SP2. 1. First of all check if name resolution is working fine...

We would like to use the app.config file for a specific COM+ application. Generally we create dllhost.exe.config and put that in System32 directory. But this app.config will then be applicable to all the COM+ server applications. Resolution : 1. Create...

Problem: Unable to install COM+ application proxy on Vista machine. In the event log, Error 1928: error registering COM+ application. Resolution: Removed rundll32.exe from DEP (Data Execution Prevention) to resolve the problem. Rundll32.exe is used...

Problem : We were using System.Transactions to initiate distributed transactions against SQL Server. The transaction were getting aborted after about 10 minutes even though the System.Transactions has a timeout set to 200 minutes. DTC timeout (in...

Unable to bring the DTC resource online on the cluster. In the event log : Event Source: MSDTC Event ID: 4394 Description: MS DTC's log information has not been configured correctly in the shared cluster registry. Error Specifics: d:\nt\com\complus\dtc...

Problem : We tried to register a serviced component from .Net framework version 2.0 directory using regsvcs.exe. It was installed successfully but with a warning : WARNING: '< function name >' on class '< namespace.classname >' is not an interface...

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