Distributed Services Support Team
The official blog of the engineers supporting distributed technologies
Solutions, workarounds and suggestions for common AppFabric 1.1 errors
AppFabric 1.1 can throw random DataCacheException under load. The three most common errors are:...
Author: davidqiu Date: 03/09/2015
AppFabric 1.1 Authentication Security Protocol: Kerberos or NTLM
You may ask the question why I care about what authentication protocol is used in AppFabric as long...
Author: davidqiu Date: 03/08/2015
The DTC service cannot start
If you cannot get the DTC service to start and see the following error whenever you try starting it,...
Author: davidqiu Date: 03/08/2015
Hosting Workflow Services in Azure under multiple Service Instances
I ran into an interesting issue with Workflow services hosted in Azure. When I had enabled more than...
Author: Amy McElhaney Date: 12/16/2014
Common AppFabric 1.1 Installation Errors with and without SharePoint
There can be multiple reasons for installation errors when installing AppFabric either with...
Author: Amy McElhaney Date: 12/16/2014
AppFabric 1.1 error in SharePoint Server 2013 installation
SYMPTOMS While installing the SharePoint Server 2013 prerequisites, you see the following error in...
Author: davidqiu Date: 11/01/2014
Configure firewall exceptions for Windows Server AppFabric Cache
This MSDN article documents how to set the Windows firewall exceptions for AppFabric Caching Service...
Author: davidqiu Date: 03/19/2014
How to Update Windows Server AppFabric 1.1 with Cumulative Update Packages
Microsoft releases cumulative update (CU) packages for AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server. Each...
Author: davidqiu Date: 02/26/2014
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the registry key 'Global' is denied
Your AppFabroc client application may throw the following exception after you install a cumulative...
Author: davidqiu Date: 02/21/2014
COM Server Cleanup : Now You Can Opt for a Fast Rundown
Have you ever encountered a scenario where you have a COM server that you just want to get cleaned...
Author: broder Date: 12/16/2013
Claims Aware MVC4 App using WIF Identity and Access tool in .Net 4.5 Part II
How to enable claims aware Login and Logoff on demand in MVC4 App using WIF? In this part, we are...
Author: Napegadie Kone - MSFT Date: 10/09/2013
Windows Server AppFabric Memory Consumption Behavior
The behavior of Windows Server AppFabric 1.1 memory consumption is puzzling to many people. You may...
Author: davidqiu Date: 10/02/2013
Claims Aware MVC4 App using WIF Identity and Access tool in .Net 4.5 Part I
In this blog, we focus on how to enable MVC4 Application to support claims aware authentication in...
Author: Napegadie Kone - MSFT Date: 10/01/2013
Create claims aware Wcf Service using WIF on Framework 4.0
I was looking for a step by step document to create a claims aware WCF application with WIF. The...
Author: Napegadie Kone - MSFT Date: 05/13/2013
The recommended way to use DataCacheFactory in AppFabric
You may run into the following issues if you do not use the DataCacheFactory object in an...
Author: davidqiu Date: 11/15/2012
AppFabric 1.1 Configuration Wizard shows persistence and monitoring databases as 'not configured'
AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server has released two cumulative update packages (KB2671763 and...
Author: davidqiu Date: 10/29/2012
WIF 1.0 - ID1073 A CryptographicException occurred when attempting to decrypt the cookie using the ProtectedData API
If you have developed a .NET 3.5 or .NET 4.0 claims aware web application using Windows Identity...
Author: Todd Foust Date: 10/29/2012
AuthenticationException in AppFabric 1.1 Caching for Windows Server
There is a known limitation in Windows Server AppFabric 1.0 Caching security. That is, when the...
Author: davidqiu Date: 10/28/2012
Web Service Enhancements (WSE) Supported Environments
Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET (WSE) is an add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and...
Author: Todd Foust Date: 10/25/2012
How to install the WIF 1.0 runtime on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) 1.0 is a separate package that you can download from the Microsoft...
Author: Todd Foust Date: 10/11/2012
How to get the WS-AT Transactions Tab in DCOMCNFG ?
If you worked with Distributed Transactions, you may already be aware that they are configured in...
Author: PuneetG Date: 10/05/2012
WIF: Tips on Adding a Service Reference to a Claims Aware WCF Service
Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) allows you to federate your web applications and WCF services to...
Author: Todd Foust Date: 08/31/2012
How to configure the MSDTC service to listen on a specific RPC server port
Starting in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 you can now configure the Microsoft Distributed...
Author: Todd Foust Date: 01/16/2012
Oracle Transactions Support with MS DTC
Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) can be used to manage Oracle transactions in...
Author: davidqiu Date: 11/28/2011
Troubleshooting MSDTC Communication Checklist
Throughout this document you may refer to this diagram to help you see how the each step relates to...
Author: Anthony Devere Date: 11/22/2011
WAS hosted WCF service stops processing MSMQ messages
IIS 7.0 introduces WAS (Windows Process Activation Service) hosting architecture to support non-HTTP...
Author: davidqiu Date: 11/11/2011
Enabling compression in IIS for an IIS hosted WCF service results in error
SCENARIO=========We have two WCF services hosted in an IIS virtual directory. One acts as a...
Author: Imtiaz Hussain Date: 10/07/2011
WCF-Java interop failure due to certificate string mismatch
Here we describe an interoperability issue with a WCF client consuming a Java web service and using...
Author: Abhuday Date: 05/09/2011
Finding out the Thread which is actually handling the WCF request for the HttpContext
In the recent past, the PSSCOR2 debugger extension was made public. This debugger extension contains...
Author: PuneetG Date: 01/11/2011
"The Update does not apply to your system" error when installing a .net framework hotfix
Resolution: You may receive this error if you do not have the required prerequisites installed....
Author: Imtiaz Hussain Date: 11/05/2010
EventId 4196 - Troubleshooting Crashes in COM+ Applications
Typically we expect that a piece of code that works once should work ALWAYS but this is not as...
Author: PuneetG Date: 07/03/2010
W2K8 COM+ Catalog Backup & Restore
In very rare conditions in the past, it may have been necessary to take steps to rebuild the COM+...
Author: jlaborde1 Date: 06/17/2010
WCF Interoperability Guidelines – 1 : Reference Style of a Primary Signing Token inside a response
Making things work with a disparate entity is always a difficult task to accomplish. Things are no...
Author: dhruba Date: 06/14/2010
SSL Offloader Using WCF 4.0 Routing Service
WCF Routing Service is a new feature introduced with WCF 4.0. While this article is not about...
Author: dhruba Date: 06/01/2010
WCF and Intermediate Devices
Using an intermediate device with a WCF client/service application can pose a few issues, we will...
Author: Imtiaz Hussain Date: 05/13/2010
Issue with Incoming Caller Authentication for MS DTC on Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 Cluster
Issue: When you run an application that tries to connect to the SQL cluster on Windows 2008 or R2...
Author: davidqiu Date: 05/04/2010
IIS intrinsic properties are disabled by default on Windows 2008 and later versions
If you migrate your ASP and COM+ application from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 you may find that...
Author: davidqiu Date: 04/28/2010
Import of Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) transaction failed: 0x8004d00e(XACT_E_NOTRANSACTION)
You may run into an issue when running JDBC XA transactions against SQL Server 2008 on Windows...
Author: davidqiu Date: 03/25/2010
Increasing DTC log file size
Recently we were looking at changing Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)’s log file size and...
Author: Sudha Thota Date: 03/18/2010
COM+ catalog file permissions
On my Windows 2008 server, I noticed that whenever I tried to navigate through COM+ explorer, the...
Author: Sudha Thota Date: 03/09/2010
List of UUIDs for MSDTC service to filter traffic on the firewall.
MSDTC communication over the network depends upon RPC. RPC functionality through a firewall requires...
Author: Ajit Yadav Date: 02/04/2010
WCF Client Code Generation - Issue with "Reuse types from referenced assemblies" option in Add Service Reference
I believe, there are some questions around "Resuse types from referenced assemblies" option under...
Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 02/04/2010
Communication between child and parent workflows
Recently, I had the opportunity to work with one of the application developers who was trying to...
Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 02/03/2010
Workflow versioning issues with eventing (External Data Exchange) and tracking services
Last Summer, I came across an interesting problem on wrokflow versioning. It included versioning for...
Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 02/03/2010
Manipulate a WCF request / response using a custom encoder
Message Encoders are an interesting component within WCF channel stack. It’s primary job is to...
Author: dhruba Date: 01/06/2010
Change the way you define your identity with .NET 3.5 SP1
A service’s endpoint identity is an important entity in an authentication process. Any WCF developer...
Author: dhruba Date: 12/24/2009
Issued Tokens Renewal : Get your token expiration time set correctly by STS
Working with issued token is always fun. The whole possibility of making 3 components (client, RP...
Author: dhruba Date: 12/11/2009