i literally have resurrected my sqlserver central account for this.

thanks for this answer! i have tried like everything you mentioned, and even wrote me a testprogram to test it myself as dtcping was working successfully but all the sqlrelated transactions run into an exception. sqlserver restart worked...

one more time, thanks for the simple answer 🙂

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btw. this is still an issue at win2016 and sql2016, just FYI