The SCOPE_IDENTITY() you're printing is for the local server. You may try to use a stored procedure on the Remote server to return the Identity value. Didn't try it myself.

>can you tell me why my Scope_identity for a remote insert is a null?
>how can I fix this?
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>insert into RemoteServer.MyDB.dbo.Customers(....) values(....)
>print 'SCOPE_IDENTITY()=' + convert(char,isnull(SCOPE_IDENTITY(),0))
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