How to stage Exchange 2010 databases using Diskshadow for a geographically dispersed DAG
Staging a local copy of Exchange Databases for geographically dispersed Database Availability Groups (DAG) is an alternative to seeding databases over a WAN. Microsoft documents this on Technet as (manually copy an offline database). The steps include dismounting the database and then copying to an external volume. I prefer to leave Exchange up and running,…