How I recovered an unbootable Linux server hosted in OVH/SoYouStart

My friend has a server hosted in SoYouStart, and suddenly the server went down and nobody knew why. He asked my helped to bring it back online. We tried to boot into recovery mode from the console, and we were able to login using the credentials sent by them. We were also able to download […]

How to fix the error “an authentication error has occurred(code 0x80004005)” when connecting through RDP.

Ever since the policy to disable TLS 1.0 was pushed down to the local machines, we started getting the error “an authentication error has occurred(code 0x80004005)”  when accessing few of our Windows 2008 R2 servers. It was interesting because we have a bunch of other servers with no problems accessing. This seems to be a […]

Fix “Failed to open Group Policy Object. You might not have the appropriate rights” error

I was facing this error in one of my servers while trying to open gpedit, with additional message “The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid”. Here is how  I fixed it. 1) Enable view hidden files from explorer. 2) Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine 3)Rename the […]