Rob Golding

For the first time in 7 months, I’ve finished writing a new article for my resource site - maxms.net. The article is entitled Folder Redirection with Group Policy in Server 2003 - it’s purpose should be explained fully in the title!

If this helps just one person out there, I will be happy. I’d be even happier if they contacted me to let me know it helped :). I hope this will signal a revival for the site, and I shall continue writing more articles as time allows. Any suggestions for future articles are welcome, just shoot me an email with the contact button up top.

For a direct link to the article, and some shameless self-promotion: Folder Redirection with Group Policy in Server 2003

I don’t know whether this is a popular or well-heard-of problem or not, but I have come across this twice now. The phpBB forums over at maxms.net have suffered the second “White Screen of Death” incident since I installed them. Firstly, I disabled Gzip compression to fix the issue. This time though, it wasn’t so easy.

I ended up being forced to reinstall the same version of phpBB to another directory on the server, into a new database. Then I renamed the new DB to something different, and changed the old one to the new one’s name. Phew! So in the end, I had a new install of phpBB, but with the same data as before - and it worked perfectly.

So if anyone else comes across this issue, firstly try disabling HTTP compression on any device in front of the web-server (which for me was MS ISA Server 2006). If that doesn’t work, it looks like it has to be a reinstall - the longest process will be renaming the DB’s, however, so be careful.

Anyhow, the forums are now back up and running - at forums.maxms.net. Hopefully this seemingly endless list of problems to fix is over now.