I am new to the forum but let me try to explain this the best that I can.
I have a single database on a SQL 2000 enterprise edition with 11 pulled merge replication publications. We are in the middle of upgrading them to SQL 2008 r2. When I do an in place upgrade, I find that there are several orphaned publications. Thus preventing the snapshot from ever completing. We also tried just restoring to a new server, still we see the orphaned publications. Has anyone seen or know how to get rid of the orphaned publications?
Philip C. Freeman