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Maybe I'm just totally not getting it, but can someone tell me how to stop/start the distribution agent? The Books Online document - "How to: Start and Stop a Replication Agent (SQL Server Management Studio)" - shows how to stop/start the Snapshot Agent, Log Reader Agent and Queue Reader Agent, but not the Distribution Agent. Is it that stopping one of these agents in turn stops the Distribution Agent. I am trying to work through how to add an article to a peer-to-peer topology and need to stop the agent as part of that.

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Hi,

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I followed the http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151868.aspx article instructions when I set the distribution agent properties

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Date        1/12/2007 2:30:01 PM
Log        Job History (105342-DB3PROD-MOMA-ArchivedTransactions-105337-DEV2-15)

Step ID        2
Server        105342-DB3PROD
Job Name        105342-DB3PROD-MOMA-ArchivedTransactions-105337-DEV2-15
Step Name        Run agent.
Duration        00:00:00
Sql Severity        0
Sql Message ID        0
Operator Emailed       
Operator Net sent       
Operator Paged       
Retries Attempted        0

Message
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2007-01-12 19:30:01.258
2007-01-12 19:30:01.258 The timestamps prepended to the output lines are expressed in terms of UTC time.
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            -SubscriberDB MOMA
            -Publisher 105342-DB3PROD
            -Distributor 105342-DB3PROD
            -DistributorSecurityMode 1
            -Publication ArchivedTransactions
            -PublisherDB MOMA
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            -XSERVER 105342-DB3PROD
            -XCMDLINE 0
            -XCancelEventHandle 00000000000006E8
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