HI,

I suggest you to investigate the "@allow_partition_realignment" publication parameter.

Yu can set it via sp_addmergepublication / sp_changemergepublication

It allows/prevent data at the subscriber (which are not part of the correct partition).

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Hi,

I think you can try to reinitialize with original -ExchangeType=3 and, then. switch to 1 after the snapshot has been applied.

This should work.

However, I suggest you to consider to...

Ideally, to implement the described scenario you should set the “–exchangeType” parameter of the merge agent.

You cannot do this using GUI but you need to create a new agent profile...

I agree, to me correct answer is null.

I tryed on my installation using a login for which I had never typed an incorrect password and result was null