Replication Wizards

Microsoft® SQL Server™ includes various replication wizards and numerous dialog boxes to help simplify the steps necessary to develop, implement, and maintain replication.

• The Configure Publishing and Distribution Wizard helps you specify a server to use as a Distributor and, optionally, specify other replication components.
• The Create Publication Wizard helps you create a publication from the data in your database.
• The Push Subscription Wizard helps you “push” a subscription from a publication on one server to one or more servers or server groups.
• The Pull Subscription Wizard helps you “pull” a subscription to a publication on one server into a database on another server.
• The Disable Publishing and Distribution Wizard helps you disable publishing, distribution, or both on a server.
• The Replication Conflict Viewer helps you view and resolve conflicts that occurred during the merge replication process.

After you have used the wizards to configure replication initially and create publications and articles, you can change most of the initial settings through property dialog boxes.