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DTC Ping error: CID for both machines are the same

I have received the following error from DTC Ping while I was checking the DTC communication between two virtual servers, an application and SQL servers:

WARNING: the CID values for both test machines are the same while this problem won’t stop DTCping test, MSDTC will fail for this

This error means that probably both of machines have been cloned from the same one. You can test a simple solution to eliminate this error message:

  1. Stop the MS DTC service
  2. Go to the command line and run: MSDTC -uninstall
  3. Go to the command line and run: MSDTC -install
  4. Start the MS DTC service

I have executed the steps just on application server and the error didn’t appear again.

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