Category: IT-howtos

  Symptoms: Whenever you try to run sfc /scannow you get the following error: "Windows File Protection could not initiate a scan of protected system files. The specific error code is 0x000004dd [The operation being requested was not performed because the user has not logged on to the network. The specified service does not exist]."… Continue reading Sfc error code 0x000004dd

I just had a nasty experience under Linux: this is actually by default for windows administrators, I know, but still… The task was to recreate a logical volume using LVM, utilizing old hard disks. The online recommendation in such cases is to erase the data from the disks before assigning them to a (physical) volume… Continue reading Erasing GPT disk with dd

Recently I experienced a 3 hours LOB delay because of Microsoft’s infamous activation policy. The background was trivial: P2V migration. Should work right out of the spot, right? I mean, using Sysinternal’s disk2vhd is a straight-forward process and moving to a Microsoft homogenous environment – meaning, moving to Hyper-V – should be a piece of… Continue reading How to rearm and change activation key on Windows

DNS request timed out. Timeout was 2 seconds. Server: Unknown If you are experiencing this problem – seeing this small message followed by correct DNS resolution, using nslookup – then this blog is for you. Here I will show how the problem was fixed. With it a bunch of other problems as well… So here… Continue reading DNS request timed out. Timeout was 2 seconds. Server: Unknown