KB2980208 - FIX: Permissions cannot be propagated to Subscriber in transaction replication when the Distributor is SQL Server

Applies To
SQL Server 2012 Enterprise SQL Server 2012 Developer SQL Server 2012 Standard SQL Server 2014 Developer - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Enterprise - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Standard - duplicate (do not use)

Symptoms

Assume that you use transaction replication that the Distributor is an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014. The publication of the transactional replication contains any combination of articles that is made up of views, stored procedures, table-valued functions, or scalar functions, and the Copy Permissions article attribute is true. When you apply the snapshot to a new Subscriber, the explicit permissions (GRANT, DENY, REVOKE) on the published articles cannot be replicated to the Subscriber. These permissions are not present in the ".sch" file that is created in the snapshot folder.

Resolution

The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.

Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server 2014 /en-us/help/2999197

Cumulative Update 1 for SQL Server 2012 SP2 /en-us/help/2976982

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.