Yes, we've tried VERIFYONLY and we get the same error message. If the client was unable to restore the database I'd definitely believe the file is corrupted - however...

Hi,

We have BizTalk and I also have this same behavior for this particular job.

According to this MSDN article, the behavior is by design.

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When I was first starting my career as a DBA the two books that I thought were the most useful in a practical sense were:

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You can also run sp_dboption 'databasename', 'published', 'false'. 

By the way, you can add columns to replicated databases but only thru the replication Wizard.  See BOL topic replication> schema changes.

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