Author: Dinesh

When you have multiple bootable Windows Operating Systems across different physical hard disks, it is likely that your system partition would be on the first disk. Let’s say for example you installed Windows 8.1 on the first hard disk. Then you attach a new SSD disk to the second slot and install Windows 10 or Windows 11 on it. Things will work smoothly if you keep both hard disks connected without formatting always. But, if you remove the first hard disk or try to format it, you may face issues in booting the Windows 10/11 that installed lately. In this…

WMI or Windows management interface (WmiPrvSE.exe) is a set of APIs that lets a developer interact with a Windows machine. Usually, you can use it with scripts to gather data from your Windows or change some of the Windows settings. WMI is the platform for all Windows operating systems to manage the data and operations locally and remotely. In the task manager of Windows 10/11 or 8.1, you can locate the WMI provider host running as a process with the name WmiPrvSE.exe. It stands for Windows Management Instrumentation Provider service. When you switch to the Process Explorer in the task…

We can use a simple PowerShell command on Windows 11 or 10 to create random numbers. You can use this technique for certain real use cases, as mentioned at the end of this article. In this guide, let’s see a few examples to generate random numbers from PowerShell. The Get-Random is the main command to output the numbers with few conditions. Case 1: Get Random Number without any conditions Entering only Get-Random cmdlet will output a random number in Powershell. Since we don’t give any range, the number could be anything between 0 to Int32.MaxValue (0x7FFFFFFF, 2,147,483,647). Case 2: Get a Random…

By default, Microsoft Exchange 2013 and 2016/2019 on-premise servers come with a 2GB mailbox size for all users. But as an IT administrator, you will be needing to increase the mailbox size from 2GB to different sizes for a specific user or all users at a time. This guide shows you how to increase mailbox size in on-premise Exchange 2013 and 2016/2019 servers for an individual user or globally (for all users) at the database level. Exchange server mailbox size can be increased either by EAC (Exchange Administration Console) or Powershell. It’s quite easy to expand mailbox size, but you…

I configured and installed the Microsoft Exchange 2013 on Windows 2012 R2 server in the production environment. It was a single server installation with mailbox and client access roles in the same virtual server. The installation went smoothly after checking of prerequisites. But after the installation, I faced some issues in mail flow receiving internal and external emails. Everything seemed set correctly according to Microsoft guidelines including send and receive connectors (installed by default). Update: Though the original troubleshooting steps were done on Exchange 2013, this method is still applicable for most recent versions like 2016/2019 and beyond! After you have…

Here is the VectorLinux VDI download page. What sets VectorLinux different from a variety of other Linux distributions are stability, performance, and speed. VectorLinux is a fast LINUX operating system that is meant for Intel-AMD x 86 compatible systems and is designed upon Slackware – which is one of the authentic Linux distributions. With the help of VectorLinux, Slackware has been improved significantly and is now creating bloat-free, easy-to-install, easy-to-maintain and easy-to-configure operating systems. Thus, VectorLinux is considered to be one of the quicker, open-source Linux distributions available across the globe. The developers of VectorLinux work with a single objective – ‘to keep…

If you want to try and evaluate Microsoft Windows servers by pre-installed VHD files on VirtualBox or VMware, you are at the right place. Using pre-installed virtual hard disks always ease our job by avoiding ISO download, installation, and configuration. You can find out more information about the download links of Windows 2022, 2019, 2016 and 2012 R2 server VHD/VHDX and how to attach them to VirtualBox or VMware in this guide. Note: This guide was originally written for the Windows 2012 R2 server with the older version of VirtualBox and VMware. But the same steps are applicable for the…

Waking up in the morning is not easy for many people and a regular alarm clock or an app is also not enough for them. They keep snoozing their alarms or sleeping through them, which makes them late for work or whatever they have to do in the morning. Getting up fresh in the mornings is the best way to start the day and there are many alarm clock apps for the latest iPhone and other models available to help people wake up fresh in the mornings. Since the built-in iPhone alarm clock app does not give many options, we…