Make sure you are an administrator on the server.   Also try: right click on the exe and run as administrator.

I think we need an explanation from the author.  Checksum was added in 2005.  He backs up his answer with one broken link and one that doesn't mention this being...

As soon as the re-init finished it started over again.

So I opened a ticket with Microsoft.  The engineer had never seen replication behave like this before.
We removed...

It's currently reinitializing from the snapshot.  Log reader is enabled and running.  Everything looks correct and we've matched all the settings to dev.

I'm going to let this run...

Subscription watch list shows nothing for snapshot, and my subscription shows under transactional.
sp_helppublication shows 0 for replication frequency.
I see nothing out of the ordinary from sp_helpsubscription.

It is standard transactional replication.  It's been running fine for about 9 months.  I added a table yesterday and created a new snapshot.  It reinitialized the publication with the snapshot...

Thanks for clarifying that Ed. I have to read more carefully and stop getting SQL 2008R2 vs. Windows 2008R2 mixed up in my head.

EdVassie (2/5/2013)

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If you are running SQL 2012 RTM or below, all the nodes in the cluster must use the same operating system. With SQL 2012 SP1 and above, you...

It's October. Sounds like school is back in session.

If this is a school homework question, please don't expect us to do your work for you.

If this isn't a homework...

Think Geek has stuff that would make great prizes. I especially like the annoyatron.:cool:

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This can happen if your default database is deleted or off-line. Reset it to a database that exists.

Ryan:

Since you are altering security on the database it requires higher permission levels than most users.

From Books Online:

"Requires membership in the db_owner fixed database role. Only members of the sysadmin...

To add to Jack's reply.

The SID is how AD identifies an account. Just because you recreated the account with the same name, it's not the same account....

If you're going to plagiarize at least choose something that's true.

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1. Everything Steve said.

2. why not use shrink (shrink file rather than shrink db) to shrink the log files? what are the downsides?

The downsides to shrinking in general...