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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