About configuring the MSDTC service group

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) service enables you to perform distributed transactions. A distributed transaction updates data on more than one computer in a network. The MSDTC service ensures that a transaction is successfully committed on each computer. A failure to commit on a single system aborts the transaction on all systems in the network. If a transaction spans across more than one computer in the network, you must ensure that the MSDTC service is running on all the computers. Also, all the computers must be able to communicate with each other.

Configuring the MSDTC service group involves the following tasks:

VCS provides several ways to configure a service group, including the service group configuration wizard, Cluster Manager (Java Console), and the command line. This chapter provides instructions on how to use the configuration wizard to configure the MSDTC service group.