I just ran into the same issue. I'm not using a linked server, instead just trying to call the package from the SSISDB catalog stored procedures.

I deployed to the...

I spent several days on the phone with the Microsoft dude and it turns out that there were two separate issues.

1. Network access needed to be configured for MSDTC, which...

And just to be clear, MSDTC is configured properly on all of my servers except for this Windows 2008 R2 Core cluster. The problem is that I can't configure...

Yes, I can do the same thing from the central server (DB01) to any other server. My test harness is this (executed from DB01)

BEGIN TRANSACTION

SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE...