Do I need DTC for my SQL Server?

I get a lot of questions about the "best" way to configure the Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) for SQL Server on a Windows 2008 cluster. There is no one best way to do it, and the first question you ask should be "do you even use DTC and if so how and how often?". If you don't use DTC or use it rarely, then perhaps you don't need to spend a lot of time coming up with the absolute "best"