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The issue normally only occurs when MSDTC is using the same cluster virtual name as SQL. The point of failure seems to be API call to “RegConnectRegistryEx” with the SQL network name. When this specific issue occurs, the call returns HR “0x80070035” (ERROR_BAD_NETPATH).
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In most cases when flowing a distributed transaction between more than a single machine, a number of Transaction Managers (TM's) will be involved. In Microsoft’s case the TM implementation is the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC).
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Take the scenario whereby MSDTC is configured on Server A and allows remote administration. This means on server B you will be able to add Server A as a remote machine within the component services management snap-in. Once added you will be able to make
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Take the scenario whereby you have a Windows 2008 Cluster used as a SQL Database Cluster. A common requirement of SQL Server is a Transaction Manager (MSDTC). If your configuration is to have one clustered instance of MSDTC in its own resource group and
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On a Windows 2003 cluster you can only ever have one instance of MSDTC running on the cluster at any one time. For this reason and to ensure the running instance of MSDTC is available to all nodes in the cluster, it must be configured as a clustered resource
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On a Windows 2003 Cluster environment, if you have an application (e.g. COM+, winforms etc) which runs under a non-administrative account and trys to start Distributed Transactions (using MSDTC), you may find it will fail. Below are a few of the errors
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This post applies to Windows 2003 Clusters 1) First you should make a careful note of all the MSDTC security Settings within "Component Services" on the currently active cluster node. This can be found by right clicking the "My Computer" node of the DCOMCNFG
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If you have a Resource Manager (for example SQL Server) that is failing to communicate with MSDTC (that you can see is started and working well), you maybe wondering the best way to troubleshoot such a problem? One possible issue could be that the account
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In both Windows Vista and Server 2008 there is now no longer a checkbox to enable TIP transaction. More information regarding a background of TIP can be found at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679484(VS.85).aspx . TIP is something that Microsoft
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In both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 the administration of MSDTC is a little different than Windows 2003 SP2 and Windows XP SP2. On a standalone machine, the difference is only in the layout of the options available, and with the exception of
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MSDTC was enhanced with the introduction of SP1 for Windows 2003 and with SP2 for Windows XP. There are many articles about the changes and extra security that are a part of this. One important KB is: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899191 . There are
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