To quiesce a replication system means to put the system in a state in which no Replication Servers have messages to send or receive. You may need to quiesce all Replication Servers in the system to recover databases, alter routes, and troubleshoot the system.
A Replication Server is quiescent when the following conditions are true:
Subscription materialization queues do not exist.
Replication Server has read all messages in all queues.
Transaction caches for inbound queues contain no complete transactions.
Messages in RSI queues have been sent and acknowledged.
Messages in DSI queues have been applied and acknowledged.
