Ok, so being a Windows Admin I had to figure out why it was not working so here ya go just in case there is someone out there that is lazy like me (though I can’t be too lazy since I worked harder to fix the auto-update than it would have been to just manually update :\ )…
It was user permissions after all…I had given both ‘Administrator’ and a specific FTP user I called ‘wpupdate’ full access to the entire wwwroot structure but it was still failing. Upon further researching resulting permissions I discovered that the group ‘<Domain>/Users’ had read only access. I added write permissions to the ‘<Domain>/Users’ group to wwwroot and all sub-directories and it worked like a charm. This is not my ideal security setup and I am going to have to play with it a little to see what the minimum permission set I can use will be and will post it here if I find a more secure setting. As another semi-related question, who maintains the Web Platform Installer since it appears that it is setting incorrect permissions?
