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.
Debian is another popular Linux distribution developed by the community-support Debian project. It has plenty of free and open-source ready-to-use software in it. It is one of the oldest OS based on the Linux Kernel for a long time. The latest version comes with more than 59000 packages. Here we installed the latest Debian 10 “buster” version on VirtualBox with Windows 10 host, updated and built the VDI image for easy download. The same image can work on Windows 11 and macOS too. Debian supports more hardware architectures than any Linux OS versions in the market, for example, amd64, i386,…
This guide shows you how to edit hosts file in Windows 10 and Windows 11 easily without any additional system tools. The hosts file is an important system file that maps the host/website names with its IP addresses. Basically, it translates the hostname to IP and vice versa. So browsing and accessing network websites and shares by the name becomes easy by avoiding DNS server requests or remembering the relevant IP addresses. We can manually edit DNS names and IP addresses for specific websites in the hosts file which will be helpful in several ways. The hosts file is a…
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…