Fixing MSDTC errors 4135 4163 4185 4112

One of clients had problem with MSDTC service on Windows 2003 server, which couldn’t start. After short investigation I have found corresponding errors in Application log:

Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    MSDTC
Event Category:    LOG
Event ID:    4163
Date:        2011-08-02
Time:        12:02:08 PM
User:        N/A
Computer:    servername
Description:
MS DTC log file not found. After ensuring that all Resource Managers coordinated by MS DTC have no indoubt transactions, please run msdtc -resetlog to create the log file.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

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