Sorry , it has been so long since I had this issue, I don't even recall what my issue was now. "REST" assured, I have done plenty of feature service editing since! Could be any number of issues. Care to elaborate on your specific issue?
Thanks for the quick reply Leland Snyder We are essentially following Jillian Penney's workflow above and getting the same error Josh received: "A local copy could not be created. Bad syntax in request." We have logs at fine level and did not see any blatant issues - in fact everything looked to check out ok but then seemed to revert back the replica two seconds later. We earlier had a different error message and saw that some of the feature classes had 0 features in them and Arcmap choked on that, though with a somewhat more helpful message about not able to find a feature. But that has been resolved and now onto the next ambiguous error.