Remove DTC from a cluster

  • I have a machine that used to hold a cluster. I uninstalled Clustering and want to get rid of the disks that were previously clustered. The only problem is that the DTC still thinks it is in a cluster, so removing those disks makes that service fail to start.

    How do I tell DTC to stop clustering?

  • Pls post your OS/SQL Server version

    Shas3

  • Sorry. Version Info:

    SQL 2000 running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

    By the way I tried COMCLUST -r but because there is no cluster it won't let me do that either. I believe it is getting hung up on the log files that are on the drive that was my quorum drive.

  • Try “msdtc –uninstall” on all nodes and also remove the registry keys

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSDTC

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSDTC

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current ControlSet0\Services\MSDTC

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet1\Services\MSDTC

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CID

    If you are doing this on a prod, I would suggest you to take the full backup and schedule this for a weekend

    Shas3

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    Try “msdtc –uninstall” on all nodes and also remove the registry keys

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSDTC

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSDTC

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current ControlSet0\Services\MSDTC

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet1\Services\MSDTC

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CID

    If you are doing this on a prod, I would suggest you to take the full backup and schedule this for a weekend


    I need MSDCT running won't this remove it from my Server?

    If it does how do I put it back after cleaning it up?

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