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  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: Changing the Login Screen Background

    Tired of seeing the purple background when you’re entering your password? Well, you can change that! The first thing that you’ll want to do is move the picture (FWIW, I’ve had no luck with copying) to a readable location. In this instance, Ubuntu already comes with one; so, we’ll move the photo to there. sudo…

  • Outlook.com: Leveraging O365’s Geo-DNS for Outlook Accounts

    If you’ve ever used Office 365, then you’ll be aware of how the Geo-DNS feature and protocol proxy can benefit users, when connecting to their mailboxes from different regions than where the tenant resides. I don’t want to rehash what’s already been written, so if you’re not familiar with Geo-DNS, I suggest perusing

  • Windows PowerShell: Discovering and Resolving Neighbours in Your Network

    Have you ever wanted to find out which computers are on your local network, what their IP addresses are (if you’re using DHCP), and what their hostnames are? Well, I’ve written a PowerShell script to do just that! You can find it on GitHub,

  • How msExchRecipientDisplayType and msExchangeRecipientTypeDetails Relate to Your On-Premises

    Updated 22 Jan 2019: In order to foster open community knowledge and growth, I’ve moved the values to being listed in GitHub, here. You’re more than welcome to make a pull-reque

  • WPForms Preview

    This is the WPForms preview page. All your form previews will be handled on this page. The page is set to private, so it is not publicly accessible. Please do not delete this page 🙂 .

  • Windows 10: Removing Groove, Facebook, and Other Unwanted Apps

    NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. A few months ago, someone very dear to me asked why they couldn’t remove unwanted apps from Windows 10 – mainly over privacy and right to decline concerns. I took it up as a…

  • O365 and Exchange 2016/Exchange 2013: Understanding the UserPhoto API

    NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. We recently had an issue for an Enterprise Cloud customer, in which the photo was not rendering for the user – which was uploaded to AD (and synced over via MMSSPP to the managed…

  • 2017 Project: Documented Code Samples

    NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. In an effort to empower more people across the planet to learn, but for it not to be an arduous journey in doing so, I’ve started heavily commenting code so that people can learn…

  • EXODSnapIn: Alpha Release

    NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. I wanted to write a post about the project I’ve been working on since circa December 2015. It’s approximately 1200 lines of code and 18 commands – all varying in intended design/function. The assembly

  • C# + AD: Dump COM and Use System.DirectoryServices.Protocols with LINQ to Query AD

    NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. A while back, I posted about using ADSI COM to get the data that you wanted. I want to show you how you can do this 10 times faster, using System.DirectoryServices.Protocols and LINQ. Class…