Win32 COM Error – XACT_E_PULL_COMM_FAILURE 0x8004D02B

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Error XACT_E_PULL_COMM_FAILURE
0x8004D02B that is returned when working with the COM-based APIs in Win32

Win32 COM Error

XACT_E_PULL_COMM_FAILURE
0x8004D02B

Win32 COM Error Error Description

The MSDTC transaction manager was unable to pull the transaction from the source transaction manager due to communication problems. Possible causes are: a firewall is present and it doesn’t have an exception for the MSDTC process, the two machines cannot find each other by their NetBIOS names, or the support for network transactions is not enabled for one of the two transaction managers.