If you're trying to apply SQL 2005 SP4 (or any SQL service pack), and it's failing, and you're seeing error "MSP Error: 29537 SQL Server Setup has encountered the following problem: [Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'MSreplication_subscriptions'", then you've hit this bug which Microsoft is currently saying they "Won't Fix": https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/521231/failure-during-server-script-upgrade-process-on-database-in-sp-vupgrade-replication-procedure#tabs Probably you've done one of 2 things: You're using synonyms that match the system replication table names You've got some vestige replication tables laying around in one of your old databases My case was the latter. The fix was to find the vestige tables and get rid of them. I found them using the following script: [sourcecode language="sql"] /* This will detect db's containing vestiges of Replication...
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