My Vista MSDTC (Distributed Transaction Coordinator) Service stops unexpectedly oftentimes. I have no idea why. I learned about this issue in my event viewer and in the Reliability Monitor. I do not know how to prevent or work around this. Can I down load a new MSDTC? (Is there such a thing?) Is there a work around?---Sometimes it comes up in event viewer as error 4427, sometimes as "faulting application" with error Code 1000, and it has come up as error code 1101 "information" with false starts, ---etc...etc...but I think the most common is the "faulting application" or with MSDTC just stopping and not allowing me to restart it (see paragraph below)....for example, today the error properties were "Faulting application msdtc.exe, version 2001.12.6930.16386, time stamp 0x4549b15c, faulting module MSDTCTM.dll, version 2001.12.6930.16386, time stamp 0x4549bd6d, exception code 0xc00000e5, fault offset 0x000868dc, process id 0xc58, application start time 0x01c8a618b22f2f5c." It has also though shown up before as a critical error event code 4209 with properties stating: "A critical error occurred in an MS DTC component therefore the process is terminating. The category field identifies the component that encountered the error. Please contact Microsoft Product Support. Error Specifics: hr = 0x80070002, d:\vistartm\com\complus\dtc\dtc\msdtc\src\cservice.cpp:461, CmdLine: C:\Windows\System32\msdtc.exe, Pid: 3160". ---And sometimes it won't allow me to restart it. I have read the Microsoft Tech article at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/7d184cd2-819c-4b20-8883-f6b4340f53db1033.mspx?mfr=true but I believe the error is still there....I do want to make clear that sometimes MSDTC will work well without any events or problems for days on end. (Please see my attachments for more details about this)------Any thoughts? STEVE
MSDTC-Solution.doc
MSDTCconsole.doc