Still no problem…… except when your task takes longer than 60 seconds to complete, then you’ll end up with Cannot enlist the transaction exceptions in your log. What happens in this case is as follows:

1. NServiceBus starts a new distributed transaction using the DTC
2. The messages is taken from the queue and the message handler starts doing its work
3. On completion, NServiceBus tries to commit the started transaction, but the transaction is gone: it was already discarded by the DTC after 60 seconds.

This can be deceiving as the system default timeout of the DTC is 10 minutes. Still, the transaction times out after 60 seconds. Don’t bother trying to change the default timeout (I already did)… it makes no difference.

I suspect it’s the System.Transactions of .NET that overrules the system timeout as adding the setting below to the configuration section of the config solves the issue:

<system.transactions>
<defaultSettings timeout="00:10:00"/>
</system.transactions>


You can also check out Eric Tummers’ blog for more info.