Moving the Publisher Role:
Use the Active Roles console to remove all Subscribers and demote the Publisher as follows:
- In the console tree, expand Configuration | Server Configuration, and select Configuration Databases.
- In the details pane, right-click a Subscriber, and click Delete.
- In the confirmation message box, click Yes.
- Repeat Steps 2–3 for each Subscriber.
- In the details pane, right-click the Publisher, and click Demote.
- In the confirmation message box, click Yes.
- Wait while the Active Roles Server demotes the Publisher.
After these steps, you can promote the appropriate SQL Server to Publisher and designate the other SQL Servers as Subscribers to the new Publisher, thus configuring the new replication group.
After you add a Subscriber, the configuration data stored on the Publisher is replicated to the Subscriber, overriding the data on that Subscriber. Therefore, in order to retain your existing configuration of Active Roles, it is advisable to assign the Publisher role to SQL Server that belonged to the old replication group. This ensures that each Administration Service in the new replication group inherits the configuration that was in place when you removed the Subscribers and demoted the Publisher.
To configure the new replication group, perform the following steps using the Active Roles console:
- Right-click the console tree root, click Connect, and then select the Administration Service whose SQL Server you want to hold the Publisher role.
- In the console tree, expand Configuration | Server Configuration, and select the Configuration Databases container.
- In the details pane, right-click the database and click Promote.
- In the confirmation message box, click Yes.
- Wait while ActiveRoles Server performs the operation.
- In the details pane, right-click the Publisher, and click Add Replication Partner.
- On the Welcome page in the New Replication Partner wizard, click Next.
- On the Database Selection page, click Browse.
- In the Connect to Administration Service dialog box, select the Administration Service whose SQL Server is to be configured as a Subscriber to this Publisher. Click OK.
- In the New Replication Partner wizard, click Next, click Next, and then click Finish.
- Repeat Steps 6–10 for each SQL Server you want to make a Subscriber.