Windows Server 2016 Update issues with WSUS

In case if you configured a new WSUS server, but your Windows Server 2016 servers without internet access are throwing errors like “We couldn’t connect to the update service. We’ll try again later, or you can check now. If it still doesn’t work, make sure you’re connected to the Internet.“, you can fix it by […]

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to open gpedit, with additional message “The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid”.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 […]