[SOLVED] Enabling and Configuring MS DTC on Windows Server Core machines

Enabling and Configuring MS DTC on Windows Server Core machines

Since we do distributed transactions using Entity framework, we currently have DTC enabled on both the client/server and the SQL server boxes in all environments.

This was easy to set up using using How to Enable MSDTC on a Web Server and it works well.

However our production environment's use Windows Server Core and this is a rudimentary command line based environment.

How do I enable/configure MS DTC on the Windows Server Core machines?

Solution

From another computer, you can:

run Dcomcnfg.exe
rigth click on Console Root / Component Services / Computer
select New / Computer
add your server

Powershell

From Server Core Powershell window or using a remote Powershell session you can use MS DTC cmdlets: Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell

You have to figure out which one are needed based on your requierement.

You can for example use Set-DtcNetworkSetting in order to modify network and security configuration for a DTC instance.