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This way, there is verification from Windows Server's tools that DTC is configured.
However, this does not mean that the firewall ports are open to ensure that DTC is in op-
eration. For example, a firewall may block the interaction of the DTC protocol between
machines.
Due to firewalls not being allowed to open up all the ports between machines, it is often a
best practice to minimize the ports to run the transactions between ports 5000 and 6000.
This can be done by setting the
Ports Ranges
value under
Component Service
|
My
Computer
|
Default Protocols
|
Properties
to
5000-6000
.
DTC can be used to verify that the system is working before running a program. Both ma-
chines have to be set up to run DTC, and there are many articles related to troubleshooting
nservicebus/transactions-message-processing
.
Note that DTC is very dependent on the
protocols that run between machines and can cause many errors when not configured
properly.
