Re: MS DTC and DCOM



If this is a cluster, you will not be able to access the settings in the Component Services snap-in without having a clustered MSDTC resource online on the node that you are running the snap-in.

Chuck Timon, Jr.
Microsoft Corporation
Longhorn Readiness Team
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"Madison" <Madison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5C5C2D35-0241-404A-8A9C-2327D734F5EF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Chuck, the registry show Enable DCOM "Y" so it appears to be enabled in the
registry but not in DCOM mmc.

"Chuck Timon [MSFT]" wrote:

Use this article - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825750/en-us to inspect
the registry to see if DCOM is enabled or not.

Thanks.

Chuck Timon, Jr.
Microsoft Corporation
Longhorn Readiness Team
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"Madison" <Madison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BA9BAE8B-BD69-42F1-8ADC-F18364D84FF3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Jeff,
>
> Customer is not going to allow me to build this resource on the > production
> machine not knowing if this is the issue.
> I guess I am back to my basic questions.
>
> Is MSDTC needed to enable DCOM?
> Could a GPO be preventing me from enabling DCOM?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> "Madison" wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the quick response. I will give it a try and post my
>> results.
>>
>> "Jeff Hughes [MSFT]" wrote:
>>
>> > It's true that in a clustered environment, the local DTC service is
>> > prevented from running and therefore, prevents the DCOM snapin from
>> > fully
>> > expanding the computers branch. All you need to do to prove/disprove
>> > whether
>> > or not the lack of the DTC service running is add a new 'Distributed
>> > Transaction Coordinator' resource to one of the cluster groups, >> > bring
>> > it
>> > online. If you still see the issue, just delete that resource and
>> > continue
>> > troubleshooting.
>> > -- >> > Jeff Hughes, MCSE
>> > Support Escalation Engineer
>> > Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support (Server Core/Cluster)
>> > "Madison" <Madison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:14D4699A-7AEB-4DA8-8B9E-B2A5F6A9916E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > >I am at a customer site troubleshooting an error with a client >> > >server
>> > > application with indications pointing towards DCOM. I have a >> > > Win2003
>> > > two
>> > > node
>> > > Active Passive cluster. I have located some articles related to >> > > the
>> > > resource
>> > > that has to be built for Distributed Transaction Coordinator but I >> > > am
>> > > not
>> > > sure this is my issue. Ther resource is not built and I have the >> > > (red
>> > > down
>> > > arrow) when I expand the DCOM window to my computer.
>> > > The real problem I am seeing is the Default properties tab at my
>> > > computer
>> > > for DCOM. The check box for Enable Distributed COM is not enabled.
>> > > When I
>> > > enable this checkbox, I show no accounts in the Default
>> > > Authentication
>> > > drop
>> > > down. Even more strange, when I ok the changes. The MMC closes on >> > > me.
>> > > When
>> > > I
>> > > re-open MMC for DCOM the checkbox is unchecked.
>> > > Is MSDTC needed to enable DCOM?
>> > > Could a GPO be preventing me from enabling DCOM?
>> > > I do not see the same issue on non-clustered machines at this >> > > site!
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Your help will be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.
>> >
>> >



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