Distributed Transaction Coordinator(MSDTC) and Transaction FAQ

Question

 

Useful MSDN Article Links:

 

Distributed Transaction Coordinator

 

New functionality in the Distributed Transaction Coordinator service in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and in Windows XP Service Pack 2

 

Troubleshooting problems with MSDTC Issues

 

How to troubleshoot MS DTC firewall issues

 

How to enable diagnostic tracing for MSDTC on a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003

 

How to enable diagnostic tracing for MS DTC on a Windows Vista-based computer

 

Error message when you try to start a transaction in MS DTC: "New transaction cannot enlist in the specified transaction coordinator"

 

FIX: Upgrading DTC to Close Idle Connections

 

RPC

How to configure RPC dynamic port allocation to work with firewalls

 

Troubleshooting RPC Endpoint Mapper errors using the Windows Server 2003 Support Tools from the product CD

 

Service overview and network port requirements for the Windows Server system

 

Cluster

How to configure Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator on a Windows Server 2003 cluster

 

Troubleshooting a Windows Server Cluster

 

System.Transactions

Introducing System.Transactions in the .NET Framework 2.0

 

System.Transactions Namespace

 

Transaction Management Escalation

 

System.Transactions Diagnostics

 

System.Data Integration Issues

SQL Promoting unexpectedly

 

SQL Committing unexpectedly ("Transaction Binding=ExplicitUnbind;")

 

WS-AT

Using WS-AtomicTransaction

 

Configuring WS-Atomic Transaction Support

Answer 1

I'm not sure if you're supposed to suggest new entries in the FAQ but an article I found very useful and could maybe make a good addition to the list is the following on TechNet:

How to Configure Multiple Instances of Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) on a Windows Server Failover Cluster 2008

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