If Paul manually designates a bridgehead server and does nothing about specified partitions not being replicated, what will occur?

The scenario involves Paul designating a bridgehead server while ignoring the specified partitions that are not being replicated. In this context, if there is an error message indicating certain partitions are not being replicated, it reflects that those partitions were not included in the replication process due to the manual designation.

The correct response aligns with the fact that the act of designating a bridgehead server does not automatically trigger replication for those partitions that have been explicitly identified as not to be replicated. Therefore, the specified partitions will remain excluded from the replication activities. This means that those partitions will continue to exist in their current state, without undergoing any replication process, effectively indicating that their status remains unchanged despite the designation of the bridgehead server.

Understanding this illustrates a key principle in server configuration and replication processes: that manual selections can impact the behavior of how data is managed and transferred across a network, but does not override existing configurations of non-replicated partitions.