SQL Server Replication – Configure the SQL Server Agent – Part 1 of 4

Once you are going setup SQL Server Replication configures the SQL Server Agent as:
Make Sure SQL Server Agent is running

01 Configure the SQL Server Agent

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Right click My Computer -> Manage… -> Choose from the tree at the left: “Services and Applications” -> “Services”

02 Configure the SQL Server Agent

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By default the SQL Server Agent runs under the local System account, but for SQL Server Replication to work this must be changed to a specific created user account that has all the necessary rights to run as a service.

Preferably, the user that is assigned to the Agent is a domain user that is known both at the client systems and the publishing database server.

03 Configure the SQL Server Agent

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By default the main registration within SQL Server enterprise manager is called “local”. On the main publishing server this must be changed to a qualified address or name to have SQL Server replication working as above.

Reference URL
http://varindersandhu.in/2011/08/12/sql-server-how-to-setup-sql-server-replication/