Distributed Services Support Team
The official blog of the engineers supporting distributed technologies
Mind the case and space when configuring your protocol bindings inside IIS 7.0 to enable net.tcp
We all are aware that WCF provides a new TCP-based network protocol (net.tcp://) for high...
Author: dhruba Date: 12/01/2009
WCF: Calling WCF service hosted in IIS on the same machine as client throws authentication error
Scenario: A WCF service hosted in IIS that is invoked from another WCF service or ASP.NET...
Author: Imtiaz Hussain Date: 11/10/2009
A COM+ application may stop working on Windows Server 2008 when the identity user logs off
Problem Description You have a COM+ server application. The application is set to run as a...
Author: davidqiu Date: 11/06/2009
Event ID 4156 with RPC_S_INVALIDA_ARG is logged intermittently when MSDTC Mutual Authentication is not required
SYMPTOMS Intermittently MSDTC 4156 error message with RPC_S_INVALIDA_ARG in the event details...
Author: davidqiu Date: 11/05/2009
How to Correctly Retrieve the Value of MessageHeaders in WCF MessageInspector
Problem Description A WCF message inspectors pass a custom message header from the client caller to...
Author: davidqiu Date: 07/21/2009
Issues to Be Aware of When Using COM+ QueuedComponent with Object Pooling
Problem Description The component is a COM+ event class. It is also a COM+ QueuedComponent (QC) and...
Author: davidqiu Date: 07/21/2009
Error 80070721 Occurs When Instantiating a COM Component on a Remote Windows 2008 Server
Problem Description An application calls CreateObject to activate a COM+ component or a DCOM server...
Author: davidqiu Date: 07/20/2009
Access Violation in ole32 dll after installing MS09-012 on Windows 2000 servers
On windows 2000 SP4 machines, you may experience AVs (C0000005 exceptions) in SQL Server or any...
Author: Sudha Thota Date: 06/25/2009
Tracing in COM and COMplus
Warning You should not enable tracing functionality on production systems unless a Microsoft support...
Author: Sudha Thota Date: 06/19/2009
BadImageFormatException or TypeInitializationException when using mixed mode VC++ dlls in managed servicesapplications
Problem When using mixed mode VC++ dlls in your managed services\applications, you may encounter...
Author: Sudha Thota Date: 06/17/2009
Too many operations or methods in WCF Service causes the metaDataExchange fail
Symptom: Too many methods or operations in WCF service hosted on net.tcp or http binding might lead...
Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 05/07/2009
How to Update MSDTC with Windows Server 2003 MS DTC Hotfix Rollup Packages
The Windows Server 2003 COM+ 1.5 hotfix rollup packages are cumulative. Each package contains all of...
Author: davidqiu Date: 05/02/2009
Disaster Recovery for MSDTC on Windows Server 2003 and 2008
You may experience serious problems with the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC)...
Author: davidqiu Date: 04/01/2009
How to isolate the installation of individual UDDI Services on Windows 2003 Server
In order to install UDDI components on a Windows 2003 server you use the Add/Remove Windows...
Author: Todd Foust Date: 03/20/2009
Intermittent Error: MSDTC on server 'servername' is unavailable
MSDTC on server 'servername' is unavailable is a generic error which indicates the application...
Author: davidqiu Date: 03/13/2009
Troubleshooting MSDTC Permission Issues When a Distributed Transaction Starts
This article is intended to address some common permission issues during the initialization process...
Author: davidqiu Date: 03/13/2009
Client proxy close method call does not finish immediately in one-way WCF calls
Problem: Clients calling a one-way method in WCF Service and then close method on proxy does not...
Author: Zafar Mohammed - MSFT Date: 02/12/2009
The hidden tool – MSDTC Transaction Tracing
If you deal with MSDTC frequently, you might have noticed an option to toggle the tracing options...
Author: PuneetG Date: 02/06/2009
Streaming large files with WSE
We have a few articles that describe how to enable large file transfers with WSE 3.0(see references...
Author: Imtiaz Hussain Date: 01/07/2009
Troubleshooting MSDTC issues with the DTCPing tool
Every day the Distributed Services support team in Microsoft helps customers in troubleshooting some...
Author: PuneetG Date: 11/12/2008
Welcome to the Distributed Services Support Team Blog
Welcome everyone to the official blog of the Distributed Services support team at Microsoft. We are...
Author: Todd Foust Date: 10/17/2008