Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator and SysPrep Clones

Symptoms:

• When using Microsoft DTC in a Cloned or Converted virtual machine you receive the following error:
  
  Failed to propagate transaction
  
  
• DTC nodes cannot communicate with each other
• You encounter EventID 4101

Solution:

This is a DTC issue, not a VMware issue.

DTC uses a unique identifier to identify the DTC node, and two nodes with the same unique identifier cannot communicate with each other.

To resolve this issue, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc726210.aspx.