Getting Started with Microsoft Transaction Server

Microsoft« Transaction Server (MTS) is a component-based transaction processing system for developing, deploying, and managing high-performance, scalable, and robust enterprise, Internet, and intranet server applications. MTS defines an application programming model for developing distributed, component-based applications. It also provides a run-time infrastructure and a graphical tool for deploying and managing these applications. This section provides an overview of the new features in MTS, gives a brief tour of the documentation, and contains a glossary of terms.

This section contains:

• What's New in Microsoft Transaction Server: Describes new features in this version of MTS.
• Microsoft Transaction Server Documentation Roadmap: Provides a summary of MTS product documentation.
• Microsoft Transaction Server Glossary: Provides definitions for MTS terms.
• Microsoft Transaction Server Utilities: Provides a description of the different utilities that can be used with MTS.
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): Provides a pointer to frequently asked questions about MTS and their answers.

This section does not contain information on:

• Setting Up MTS; see Setting Up Microsoft Transaction Server.
• Deploying and administering MTS packages; see Microsoft Transaction Server Administrator's Guide.
• Programming MTS applications; see Microsoft Transaction Server Programmer's Guide.

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