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I have Word 2000, Word 2003 and Word 97 installed on my machine. At a time ,only one exe will be active as per the behaviour. i.e . When I click on the Word 2003 exe (Winword.exe) all icons changes to Word 2003. When I click on Word 2000,all icons changes to Word 2000 and so is with Word 97. Since the compare method of Word 2000 object model accepts only one parameter i.e filename , I am using the same with Word 2003 also. When I tried to compare documents edited with word 2000 using Word 2003 object model, it is not showing track changes on. When I use Word 2000 Compare method, it is working perfectly.

However, when I use Compare method with additional parameter as CompareTarget: =1 (in Word 2003), it is working fine.

Why the Compare method with single parameter as FileName is not working in word 2003 ?

One more problem: I have written code to clean the Word Application as well as Word Document object in the ‘finally’ expression,but Task manager is showing an instance of WINWORD.EXE running under the account of ASPNET user..Can anybody explain the behaviour !!!

When we are using SQL server 2000 on Windows server 2003 machine and application on Windows XP/Professional and changed machine location,the same application which was running previously,started giving the above error.After lots of search, we found that the problem resulted due to change of IP address/ Port or domain of client machine on which application is hosted. What was happening - MSDTC on client system was able to communicate with MSDTC on database server but vice versa was not possible as the DNS setting is yet not reflected in DB server. This will take some time to reflect,therefore Windows server 2003’s MSDTC check for the previous IP/domain and fails to respond resulting in above error. The solution is - Either restore the IP address to original OR wait for around 24 hrs ..it will solve the problem.

Here is KB:MSDTC fails to mutually authenticate when computers do not run in the same domain explaining the Mutual authentication failure when running application and Database server on different domains.

Also if you are running your application on Windows XP with SP2 applied, check for the proper configuration for MSDTC. Here is a documentation at Microsoft Technet: Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Any comments welcome !!