<sonyan@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello folks,
>
> I am trying to set up replication between a central office and
> multiple sites. This will be merge repl, since either central or
> satellites can be modified. However, one issue I ran into is setting
> up subscribers. I don't always have the option of starting with a
> publisher's snapshot; some of the subscribers have their own data
> already, which may or may not overlap with central site, and which
> needs to be synchronized into the central site somehow.
>
>
> So far, I haven't seen any solution for this kind of scenario, at
> least nothing out of the box. Am I doomed to having to roll out custom
> data transfers (I don't think I can use DTS since all sites are
> running Express), or is there some standard way of doing this?
>
>
>
> Thanks so much!
>
>
>
> Sonya
>