XA Transactions in Windows XP SP2

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Service Pack 2 adds to Windows XP the same level of security as in Windows Server 2003 for XA transactions (transactions that are used with XA-compliant resource managers like Oracle, IBM DB/2 etc). See my previous post at  https://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar/archive/2003/12/04/41370.aspx for the more details on how to enable XA transactions after installing XP SP2.

If you are using the default XA dll that COM+ provides, which is named mtxoci.dll, then in Windows XP SP2 you need to follow https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;817066 and create a registry key entry for the "mtxoci.dll" as you would do for any other XA DLL. It would be something similar to:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSDTC\XADLL]

 Key name: mtxoci.dll

 Data: C:\Windows\system32\mtxoci.dll

Note: Replace the part in bold with your actual path to the %windir% folder.