Since becoming a DBA, I’ve never been in an environment that had so much problem with replication. When I setup replication in the past, it was set it up, let it roll, and it will do its thing without any problem.
At my current job, we are pumping 2.7 millions changes from a publisher to 3 subscribers. In this environment, this takes FOREVER! So I was introduced to a few new method of making such large pushes last night. The following 2 articles should give you more information:
Technet article
SQL Server Central
I read something last night but before I comment on it here, I’m going to dig a bit more.