"Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I get this "Action Message" when I look at the "View Details" for a
> transactional replication agent:
>
> The concurrent snapshot for the publication '[publication name]' is not
> available because it has not fully generated or the Log Reader Agent is
> not
> running to activate it. If generation of the concurrent snapshot was
> interrupted, the Snapshot Agent for the publication
>
> It seems like I get this for every transactional replication I attempt to
> set up. I've looked at permissions on the folder containing the snapshot
> files.
>
> The publisher is a SQL 2005 server (uses same server as distributor).
> There
> are currently several merge replications successfully replicating from the
> same server.
>
> Thanks

"Hilary Cotter" wrote:

> Make sure the log reader agent is running and try to run the snapshot again.
> The way it works is a snapshot is generated and then distributed. Then the
> log is consulted at the point the snapshot started to see what changes
> occurred since the start and these changes are also sent to the subscriber.
>
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> "Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7F43689B-D509-4AE1-917F-4C7075071937@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I get this "Action Message" when I look at the "View Details" for a
> > transactional replication agent:
> >
> > The concurrent snapshot for the publication '[publication name]' is not
> > available because it has not fully generated or the Log Reader Agent is
> > not
> > running to activate it. If generation of the concurrent snapshot was
> > interrupted, the Snapshot Agent for the publication
> >
> > It seems like I get this for every transactional replication I attempt to
> > set up. I've looked at permissions on the folder containing the snapshot
> > files.
> >
> > The publisher is a SQL 2005 server (uses same server as distributor).
> > There
> > are currently several merge replications successfully replicating from the
> > same server.
> >
> > Thanks
>
>