Distributed Services Support Team

Problem Description Intermittently a COM+ application that called the DOMDocumentWrapper::load method in msxml3 is hung. A restart of the application was required to temporarily solve the problem on a Windows 2000 SP4 machine. Cause To identify the cause Read More...

Problem Description We saw slow Web response and high CPU in a 3-tier application under load. The application consisted of an IIS Web application front end, COM+ applications on the app server and the DB application on the backend. Cause To identify the Read More...

Problem Description An application calls CreateObject to activate a COM+ component or a DCOM server component which runs on a remote machine. The call to the CreateObject may fail with the error 80070721 which translates to "A security package specific Read More...

Welcome everyone to the official blog of the Distributed Services support team at Microsoft. We are a part of Developer Support and currently provide support for the following technologies: COM/DCOM COM+ DTC Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Workflow Read More...