It seems the GPO in our company pushes down the security settigns to not allow network services account to have write access to the folder C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\. is it a bad practice security wise to give this account write access to this folder? Thanks.

You may need to ask the admin who deployed this GPO.

that would be me and microsoft.

The .net folder should have write access for the asp applications to work. You need to register your version of IIS. Do this: Open a command prompt. Navigate to 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files' Run this: aspnet_regiis.exe -i this should fix the issue else. Open a command prompt and type gpresult look under the computer configuration to see what policies are applied. Vinod H

The .net folder should have write access for the asp applications to work. You need to register your version of IIS. Do this: Open a command prompt. Navigate to 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files' Run this: aspnet_regiis.exe -i this should fix the issue else. Open a command prompt and type gpresult look under the computer configuration to see what policies are applied. Vinod H