SSMS 18.1 Replication Monitor missing support for Always On

With SQL Server Management Studio 17.7 release, Replication + Always On technology was fully supported allowing registration\connections via Always On Listeners. This update fully supported use of Tracer Tokens following failover to a secondary Replica. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/release-notes-ssms?view=sql-server-2017#download-ssms-177 What’s new Replication Monitor: Replication monitor now supports registering a listener for scenarios where publisher database and/or distributor database
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How to skip a transaction

Stored procedure sp_setsubscriptionxactseqno allows Distribution Agent to skip transaction(s) in Transactional Replication. Internally this stored procedure sets the last delivered watermark (LSN) stored in subscriber’s MSreplication_subscriptions table. Upon restarting the Distribution Agent return transactions greater that this watermark (LSN) from the Distribution database cache (msrepl_commands). [crayon-651701a63fa12228800874/] Skipping Errors Skipping Errors is useful when Distribution Agent is
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change_tracking_hardened_cleanup_version not incrementing in SQL 2014 SP3

When running manual SQL 2014 SP3 Change Tracking sp_flush_commit_table_on_demand you observe change_tracking_hardened_cleanup_version is not moving forward and syscommittab table not being cleaned up even though auto-clean is enabled. Executing: sp_flush_commit_table_on_demand 1000     The value returned by change_tracking_hardened_cleanup_version() is 1133436.     The value returned by safe_cleanup_version() is 1850878. Executing: sp_flush_commit_table_on_demand 1000     The
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Setting commitbatchsize returns ‘An invalid parameter or value was specified in the command line.’

Recently worked on a case where customer was getting this error when modifing the Distribution agent Job to use CommitBatchSize of 12K and above: Agent message code 20028. An invalid parameter or value was specified in the command line. (parameter = ‘-commitbatchsize’, value = ‘12000’) This error occurs when setting commitbatchsize greater than 10000. The
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