So I got a couple messages at 8.30 from Daphne and Alex, and it was saying that they didn't have access to their email anymore. I checked online, apparently Outlook is having issues, and since then, well, I kind of looked into it and I told them that there's nothing that I can do, well, I didn't say there's nothing that I can do, I just said that Microsoft is experiencing problems. Anyways, I didn't think that there was much that I could do because it seemed like an isolated instance to Outlook itself, not to everything else. So I stopped, but then at about 9 o'clock or something, a thought ran through my head, and I thought I would test some other things and see if it's a global Outlook outage or if it's isolated. Seemed to be a global, but I did notice that the personal side of Microsoft services seems to be working okay, so I wanted to see if I could migrate and move stuff over. And I went in and I tried to do some stuff, and it looks like it was a success, but I still don't have access to the portal. It's saying our subscription is no longer active, probably because I moved our tenant, and it's going to take probably some time before the licenses catch up. So I'm going to just double-check our licensing right now, and we have business standard, Teams, Intune, and Active Directory Premium P1. So they have been licensed on all the users that are needed. So I don't know why it's not. The only thing that I could think of is there maybe is a bit of a delay that it'll take before the licensing is applied. So yeah, essentially what I did is I just moved the location, but probably the licensing is still in the original location, so it hasn't moved, and they probably have some caching, so the question is how long the cache will exist. So hopefully it'll fix itself soon.

Yeah, so Daphne just told me that her license is Working everything is working So I'm having license issues, I don't know why on my account, but I think it's just a cache that's not Not updated. Anyway, she said no, it's working for most people over there So I'm gonna leave it at that and Not spend any more time on this because that's almost two hours. I'm not gonna get back today

But at least I was able to solve the problem, which is better for most people who would just say it's a Microsoft problem and there's nothing we can do about it, but I fixed it. So, not just a pretty face.

I'll be honest, now I forgot what I was working on and what I had planned for the day. Man. Oh, I know what I wanted to do in the meantime.

Technology seems to not like me at all today. I don't know why, but intermittent issues with images not loading. Spotify wasn't working in the morning. Outlook wasn't working for everybody in the morning. Now Google is not working for me. Chromecast has been broke in the last week, almost. We're on like technological meltdown.

I just finished touching up some images. I separated the Magenta logo from the background image so I could update that on my login page. So that it just looks a little bit better instead of jamming the logo in there.

Alright, I'm done editing all the images for me, and I also updated the background in the Microsoft Admin Center. Now I'm going to finish making the script, because the last one didn't work.

this is absolutely fucking retarded like anyways try to do a clean install of everything and everything seemed to work and then I forgot to disable all the fucking ads and Windows Spotlight for whatever reason they wanted to fucking put an update that had this shit inside so I went into into Intune and I found the area that you disable Windows Spotlight so I disabled it and guess what now fucking lock screen background image doesn't work and it's all fucking grayed out and I'm fucking tired and I want to eat and I want to go to bed so I'm done and there is a solution that I found it's called disable Windows Spotlight feature setting that in the registry HKEY local machine software policies Microsoft Windows cloud content that's one area and then I also found a lot of other potential registry areas in HKEY local machine software policies Microsoft Windows personalization there's a bunch of settings like lock screen image lock screen overlays disabled no changing start menu background for start background personal colors background personal colors accent no lock screen camera no lock screen slideshow animate lock screen background no changing lock screen and no lock screen I'll have to look through those tomorrow

Actually, Curiosity has me, so I'm going to go there now. HKEYLOCALMACHINE, and that's SOFTWAREPOLICIES, MICROSOFT, SOFTWAREPOLICIES, MICROSOFT, WINDOWS, I don't even have a fucking personalization folder. I don't even have a fucking... Fuck, man. Why do they fucking have registry and group policy and, and, and why don't they just fucking make it simple? Where would this be? Administrative templates. Um. Windows components. No. Windows. Control panel. Personalization, there we go. Prevent lock screen background motion for specific default lock screen and logon image. No. Prevent changing lock screen and logon. So where the fuck are the CSPs applied? Holy fuck, man! I'm gonna go fucking crazy. Because there's three different fucking ways to do everything now. Registry. Group policy. And CSP. To just making it more fucking complicated for no fucking reason.

I'm done for today. My brain can't take this anymore.