Platform SDK: Transaction Server

Roadmap to the MTS Administrator’s Guide

[This product will work only on Windows NT 4.0 versions and earlier. For Windows 2000 and later, see COM+ (Component Services).]

The MTS Administrator’s Guide describes how and when to use the Microsoft® Transaction Server Explorer to create, install, distribute, and maintain packages. This guide contains information for the following users:

System administrators
Web administrators
Application developers

Developers can refer to the procedures when creating, deploying, and distributing MTS applications. System and Web administrators can use the task-oriented procedures for the MTS Explorer to deploy, administer and maintain MTS applications.

The following sections describe what it means to deploy and administer packages with the MTS Explorer, and provide links to more detailed procedural topics:

What Does Creating an MTS Package Mean?
What Does Distributing an MTS Package Mean?
What Does Installing an MTS Package Mean?
What Does Maintaining an MTS Package Mean?
What Does Managing an MTS Transaction Mean?asWhatdoesmanagingmtstransactionsmean
What Does Automating MTS Administration Mean?

MTS Explorer on Windows 98

You can manage your MTS packages using the MTS Explorer on the Windows® 98 operating system. However, MTS administration on Windows 98 has the following limitations:

You can use a Windows NT computer to remotely administer a Windows 98 computer if you run the Remote Registry service on the Windows 98 computer. The Remote Registry service allows you to change registry entries for a remote Windows 98 computer (given the appropriate permissions).

To obtain the Remote Registry service, go to the \Admin\Nettols\Remotereg sub-directory on the Windows 98 CD. Review the Regserv.txt file for instructions on installing the Remote Registry service, and then run the Remote Registry setup program (Regserv.exe).

You cannot remotely administer MTS running on Windows 98 from either another Windows 98 computer or a Windows NT computer.
The left tree pane in the MTS Explorer does not appear. To navigate, double-click icons to move down the hierarchy and then click the Up one level toolbar button to move up the hierarchy.
Because the application executable utility is not supported on Windows 98, you cannot use the MTS Explorer to generate executables. For more information on the application executable utility, see the Generating MTS Executables topic.
Windows 98 administration does not support MTS security properties or roles. Therefore, you will not be able to view the Roles, Role Membership, or Users folders in the Explorer.
To add a user to a role on a Windows 98 computer, you must configure the Windows 98 machine for user-level access control.

To configure a Windows 98 computer for user-level access control, open the Windows 98 control panel and click the Network option. Choose the Access Control tab and select "User level access control". For more information about this setting, see the Windows 98 Resource Kit.

Components running on Windows 98 cannot be accessed remotely from a client on another computer.
Because Windows 98 does not have a system event log, event log entries are written to an HTML file named Transaction Server.html, which is located in the \MTSLogs subdirectory in the Windows directory. You can use this HTML file to monitor any significant occurrence in the system or a program.
There is a known problem that occurs when, if an MTS server process terminates unexpectedly (because of a failfast, an assert, or an access violation), subsequent attempts to restart the application create multiple MTS processes. (The correct behavior should be only one MTS process per package.) In case of unexpected server process termination, you must reboot your Windows 98 computer.