Microsoft Distributed Transaction Service crash can cause the loss of COM+ Queued Component messages

A crash of the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Service (MSDTC) service process can cause the Microsoft COM+ Queued Component (QC) Listener to lose QC messages.

Even if a COM+ QC must be executed in a transaction because the COM+ Transaction property is set to required or to required new, the QC Listener reads QC messages in a non-transactional way when it cannot read the messages in a transactional way.

How to obtain the hotfix

This issue is fixed in the Windows 2000 Server COM+ 1.0 Hotfix Package 28. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section of this article.