I ran into two errors on my largest database. Both were easy to remedy.

The first was simply that I had some object names in excess of your 50 character limit....

One question:

You specified "Run the publisher and distribution setup wizard to setup distribution afresh. This will recreate the distribution database afresh."

By this, do you actually mean two separate wizards? I...

The publication contains approximately 200 filtered articles.

Yes, the distribution database was restored onto the dev server.

The dev server is acting as its own distributor, just as the production server does.

I guess I wasn't specific enough.

We have one production server acting as its own distributor. This server has one publication and uses merge replication to upload/download data to/from aproximately 300...

Thanks for the fast reply, Jason.

We are trying to create a dev environment that is essentially a copy of our production environment. The two systems will not communicate with each...