That is how we are moving forward, but wasn't sure if there was any other way to resolve this since the database is more than 2TB so restoring to Azure...

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. That whitepaper has helped quite a bit. It does look like the tabular models, currently, are only about 50GB in size total....

Yes, norecovery on log restores as well.

I have deployed "enterprise" level mirrors twice before and have had no issues there, both up and running without issues since implementation. That...

I have run into the same issue. I was trying to set this up on SQL 2008 R2 / Win7 64 dev box.

Ports are open, mirroring is started on both...