<p>When you register, you'll also receive targeted alerts from my team of editorial writers and independent industry experts with the latest news, tips, and advice to help you do your job more efficiently and effectively. Our goal is to keep you informed on the hottest topics and biggest challenges faced by Exchange professionals today working with Exchange, Outlook and other related technologies. Margie Semilof, Editorial Director</p><p>A: If you do a little digging, you'll find that Microsoft clearly answers this question in itsExchange 2010support policy. But to make a long story short, Microsoft does not support Exchange 2010 virtualsnapshots.</p><p>Snapshots are usually based on how you use differencing disks. They preserve a hard disk (or avirtual hard disk) as it exists at a specific point in time. However, when you take a snapshot, thecontents of the server's memory are not preserved.</p><p>If you take a snapshot of a mailbox server, transactions residing in memory that have not yetbeen committed to transaction logs will likely be lost unless the snapshot utility wasExchange-aware.</p><p><a href="http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/answer/Should-I-snapshot-Exchange-2010">Keep reading...</a></p>