Pausing SQL Server transactional replication without losing queue contents

To Pause:

1. Open SSMS and connect to the distributor
2. Disable and Stop the "Distribution clean up: distribution" job
3. Expand SQL Server Agent, right-click on Jobs, select View Job Categories and choose REPL-Distribution
4. Disable and Stop all listed jobs

To Continue:

• Enable and Start all the jobs that were stopped

I have seen countless forum discussions for this topic but no succinct list of steps.