Our environment has VMs hosting SQL Server 2014 12.0.4100.1 with one in Azure. Each VM has just the SQL default instance and no named instances. I am setting up a uni-directional transactional replication to the VM in Azure.
Issue: When attempting to bring up the Configure Distribution Wizard an error is returned that says: "SQL Server replication requires the actual server name to make a connection to the server. Specify the actual server name, 'W2012R2STD'. (Replication.Utilities)".
I cannot connect to this server name b/c a default instance has no name. Possible resolution is to create a new named instance on this server to act as the distributor.