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The Template Persistent Cache initialization failed for Application Pool ‘DefaultAppPool’ because of the following error: Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool. The data may have additional error codes.

UPDATE: I have a better fix for this after finding the Microsoft IIS Diagnostic Tool Kit. Install this tool and it will tell you what group needs to have permissions to the different folders and registry keys which will help find a solution to this issue much quicker. I’ll post my updated batch file at the end of this post.

Reviewing the logs, I ran aross this error on quite a few webservers. A closer look shows that it’s a permissions issue which can be fixed by doing the following.

Add the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE account to C:\WINDOWS\Help\iisHelp\common with “Read and Execute,” “List Folder Contents” and “Read”.

Add the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE account to C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\ASP Compiled Templates with Full Control.

Add the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE account to C:\WINDOWS\IIS Temporary Compressed Files with Full Control.

Seems like a lot of work when there are so many machines to make these changes to. That said, I did a little digging and found the following Command.

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