RE: MSDTC

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Monte W,

You say rolling upgrade ? What are you doing ?
Upgrading in place from W2K ? I hope not.

I personally would install MTDTC. No sweat to do.
It at least will prevent the errors in the logs.

I quote "
Method 1: Use Cluster Administrator
This section documents how to install MSDTC through Cluster Administrator on
all nodes in a cluster. You only have to install the MSDTC once in Cluster
Administrator and MSDTC will be configured on all nodes in the cluster. You
do not have to install MSDTC manually on each node.
Complete the steps that are documented in Knowledge Base article 817064.
Start Cluster Administrator. To do so:
Click Start, and then point to All Programs
In Administrative Tools, click Cluster Administrator.
Create a Group Named "MSDTC Group" that contains a Physical Disk, Network
Name, and an IP Address. To do so:
In the File Menu select New, and then click Group. The New Group Wizard is
available.
Follow the instructions that the New Group Wizard provides to create the
MSDTC Group.
Note You can use an existing group that has a Storage resource in it.
However, we recommend that you create the MSDTC resource in its own resource
group, such as you would for SQL Server or Exchange, where you can do so. To
do this, follow the steps in this procedure. If you cannot do this, go to
step 7 and select the Cluster group as your choice.

Important After the new group for MSDTC is created you must create the
Network Name, IP address and Physical Disk for Msdtc. You may already have
the physical disk resource that can be moved into the new group. After the
MSDTC Group is created you must create the IP address resource, Network Name
resource and the Physical disk resources. You may already have a physical
disk resource that must be moved into the new MSDTC group.
Create an IP address resource:
Right-click the MSDTC group, and then click New\Resource.
Type a descriptive name such as MSDTC IP Address.
In Resource Type, click IP Address, click to select the MSDTC Group check
box, and then click Next.
In Possible Owners, click Next unless you do not want MSDTC to run on a
particular node.
In Dependencies, do not add any dependencies, and then click Next.
In TCP/IP Address Parameters, select the public network, type the unique
static IP address for MSDTC, and then click Next.
Click Finish, and then click OK to confirm that the resource has been created.
Create a Network Name resource:
Right-click the MSDTC group, and then click New\Resource.
Type a descriptive name such as MSDTC Network name.
In Resource Type, click Network name, click to select the MSDTC Group check
box, and then click Next.
In Possible Owners, click Next unless you do not want MSDTC to run on a
particular node.
In Dependencies, add the MSDTC IP address as a resource dependency, and then
click Next.
In Name, type the network name for the MSDTC resource, and then click Next.
Click Finish, and then click OK to confirm that the resource has been created.
Create a "Physical disk" resource.

Note You may already have a physical disk resource create and you will need
to move the physical disk resource into the MSDTC group.
Right-click the MSDTC group, and then click New\Resource.
Type a descriptive name such as MSDTC Physical disk.
In Resource Type, click Physical disk, click to select the MSDTC Group check
box, and then click Next.
In Possible Owners, click Next unless you do not want MSDTC to run on a
particular node.
In Dependencies, do not add any dependencies, and then click Next.
In Disk Parameters, click the physical disk that you will use for MSDTC.
Click Finish, and then click OK to confirm that the resource has been created.
Right-click the MSDTC Group, and then click New\Resource.
Type a name, such as MSDTC Resource.
In Resource Type, click to select Distributed Transaction Coordinator,
verify that the MSDTC Group is selected, and then click Next.
In Possible Owners, click Next unless you do not want MSDTC to run on a
particular node.
In Dependencies, press and hold the CTRL key on the keyboard, select both
the Physical Disk and Network Name that you created in step 2, and then click
the Add button.
Click Finish, and then click OK to confirm that the resource has been created.
Right-click the MSDTC Resource, and then click Bring Online.

Worked for me !!

Cheers
LM



"Monte W" wrote:

> I am performaing a rolling upgrade on active active cluster servers that are
> file clusters. I have installed windows 2003 and updated the first server
> using windows update. I see that in windows 2003 your MSDTC should run as a
> cluster service and I have also noticed that MS04-12 has created some issues
> with the MSDTC (KB867520). Anyway with an active active file cluster should
> a person make the MSDTC a resources on both of the cluster groups that
> contain Disk resources and file shares?
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