Author: Dinesh
Dinesh is the founder of Sysprobs and written more than 400 articles. Enthusiast in Microsoft and cloud technologies with more than 15 years of IT experience.
Telnet is one of the famous network protocols widely used to manage network devices and other equipment that support this protocol. If you are a system or network administrator, I’m sure you know the importance of having a telnet client on your desktop or laptop. Since it is an optional feature, the latest Windows OS versions do not come with an installed telnet client. By default, you can’t use Windows 10 or Windows 11 to connect other network devices without installing the built-in or third-party telnet clients. If you search for telnet in apps or type ’telnet’ in the command…
In this guide, we will learn how to set up an IPsec site-to-site VPN between Fortigate and SonicWall devices. In this way, we can use both devices to connect two branches or locations. I assume that there are two different IP subnets available at both locations. This demonstration was done with the FortiOS 5.2 and SonicOS 6.1.2 versions. While reading this guide, there could be a new OS from both vendors that will have different GUI and screens. But fundamentally, the main steps remain the same. You will find similar settings/screens with the new OS as well. Few online guides…
By default Windows 8.1/7 and Vista come with a built-in firewall enabled. In that case, it is not going to respond to ping commands (ICMP requests) from other computers/servers on the network. Even though you can access network shares from other Windows desktops or laptops but still it will not respond to ping requests by saying ‘Request Timed Out’ message. The below article shows how to enable ping response/reply in Windows 7, 8.1 and even the older version of Windows Vista. If an ICMP echo request/packet (which is used in the ping command) comes from the internal or external network,…
When I upgraded the Azure AD (AAD) connect to the latest version, I faced a critical issue in our Hybrid/Office 365 environment. Few users’ attributes did not sync properly and conflict with the Office 365/Exchange online and local Hybrid mail server. These particular users’ attributes failed to sync with “InnerException=> SourceAnchor attribute has changed” warning. Based on the error, we can easily identify it is something to do with the SourceAnchor attributes. It Happens in AF & RF Setup – Mostly As it happened in my environment, you may face this issue if you have two forests in your setup…
Linux Mint is a super light Linux OS which can work much better with VirtualBox on your Windows or Mac computers. It is based on Ubuntu, but it consumes fewer resources than the famous Ubuntu. That makes Linux Mint the ideal choice to experience Linux on low-end hardware configuration Windows PCs. You can find the download link of the pre-installed latest Linux Mint VDI below. This build has the Cinnamon desktop version. If you are familiar with the Windows OS taskbar and start menu environment, you will amaze to see a similar interface on Mint Cinnamon. Compared to GNOME and…
Earlier we published a guide about VirtualBox P2V in Windows 10/11 by VMware converter. In this guide, we will learn more about how to do a VirtualBox P2V with a Microsoft utility called disk2vhd. disk2vhd is an excellent virtual hard disk tool to clone the physical disk partitions of a computer (Physical or virtual). It can output the virtual hard disk in VHD format. This VHD file can be converted to other several virtual disk formats or attached to virtualization software like Hyper-V and VirtualBox. Even though I successfully converted a physical machine to a virtual one by using the…
Let’s think about a scenario that Windows 10/11 or 8.1 PC is not booting but you have some very important data inside it. Mostly any normal user will panic at this situation. The next question that comes into mind is “how to recover/copy the important data from the faulty/non-booting computer?”. If you have another working desktop computer and your faulty computer is also a desktop PC, you can connect the hard disk to a working computer then access the data. But we can’t use this method if you don’t have access to another working desktop computer or the faulty computer…
It is always advisable to install and test the new Operating Systems in the virtual platform before trying it in a live environment, especially the server version we use in production. In this guide, let me show the steps I followed to install Windows 2019 server LTSC and SAC versions on Oracle VirtualBox. The Windows 2019 server OS was built on the firm foundation of the earlier Windows 2016 server. Windows 2016 was the most popular and fastest adopted Windows server Operating System ever, and Microsoft expects the 2019 version to overtake it. You can check here to learn more…