Creating a Distributor and Enabling Publishing
Before setting up a publisher, you have to designate a distribution server to be used by that publisher. As discussed earlier, you can either configure the local server as the distribution server or choose a remote server as the distributor (not on the same machine as the publication server). You can configure the server as a distributor and publisher at the same time, or you can configure the server as a dedicated distributor on the remote server separately. In the sample topology described here, you start by creating a remote distributor separately so you can orient yourself to what is happening on each server in the topology as it is being built up. You are also able to enable a specific SQL ...
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