The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

[spencer]

This error can be observed in lower version of IIS, like 4.0 or 5.0. Sometimes restarting IIS services on the server, services such as the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Service, the World Wide Web Publishing Service, and the FTP Publishing Service fail to start, showing The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion error message.

Reason
When the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) is configured to use a certain range of available ports for incoming requests, and this range is not sufficient.

Solution
Here you are going to modify registry of the server, so take its backup before going to do modification.

Increase the number of ports that are assigned under that registry key:
1. Click Start > Run > type regedit > click OK. It will show Registry Editor.
2. In Registry Editor, expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Microsoft > Rpc > Internet.
3. In the right pane, double-click Ports.
4. In the Multi-String Editor dialog box, raise the range of specified ports.
(if the current range is from 10000-15000, allocates only 5,000 ports, make the range to 10000-20000 to allot 10,000 ports.
5. Close Registry Editor.
8. Restart in the Server.

By default, the Internet key and its values below HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Rpc don’t appear in the registry. To allow through Firewall, this key is present. This is needed to permit MSDTC to work through a firewall.

[BodShane]

Spencer,

Let me also include this :

Here you are going to modify registry of the server, so take its backup before going to do modification.

Please make sure you take backups before any modifications are made.

Regards,

Forum Administrator
BODHost.com