Activation fails with "source object name ("SYS"."COL$") OWNER.TABLE OWNER is SYS" (4331078)

When activating, the following errors are observed:

sp_ctrl activate config <name>
line 3, source object name (SYS.COL$) OWNER.TABLE OWNER is SYS

Shareplex does not support replication of objects owned by SYS.

SharePlex does not support replication of objects owned by SYS. If an attempt is made to activate a configuration containing tables owned by the SYS user, then an error message as above will be observed and the configuration will not activate. To get around the problem, such tables need to be removed and the config file then activated.