Tony DeVere's (MSFT) Blog
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Another Case of The RPC server is unavailable - Cross Domain DCOM Call Failure
Visual Overview - Technical Overview SSMS.exe here successfully calls the EndPointMapper on...
Date: 05/03/2017
Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.2 contains a version of sqljdbc_xa which creates a handle leak in SQL Server
Recently I worked with a customer who was experiencing a crash in his SQL Server process. He was...
Date: 06/13/2016
How to determine the referenced COM object from System.__ComObject
Perhaps you are debugging your .NET Application and would like to know to which COM component an...
Date: 09/10/2015
Mixed Mode Adapter for Native C++
So our customer's goal was to update their native C++ application with support for calling a...
Date: 03/09/2015
A Tricky “Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel”
My customer is attempting to setup a WCF service behind a SSL balancer. The WCF Service will...
Date: 02/27/2015
Configure ETW Tracing Windows Server AppFabric 1.1 for Multiple Cachehosts
Enabling ETW tracing across your cluster can be made easier by utilizing this handy guide....
Date: 02/10/2015
MSDTC Does Not Correctly Log All XA Transaction Details
If you’re having to work with the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator transaction...
Date: 01/28/2015
The IObjectControl::Activate() method failed - Error Code = 0x800a01a8
My customer was migrating from Windows 2003 to Windows 2012 R2. Part of the application still...
Date: 11/25/2014
SSL HandShake ClientHello receives Encrypted Alert
My customer recently ran into a problem worth recounting. He had several machines which had a WCF...
Date: 11/11/2014
Simple WSE Routing Sample for Classic SOAP Service
A customer came to me recently asking about options to migrate a set of SOAP services hosted on...
Date: 10/28/2014
Implement a UserNamePasswordValidator for WCF Service hosted in IIS
Recently I was working with a customer to implement a custom UserNamePasswordValidator for his WCF...
Date: 10/13/2014
Learn to use the PowerShell cmdlet for testing the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC)
The following article assume the following: 1. You have no firewall between the server and client or...
Date: 09/29/2014