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Resolved Unable to read or execute files from the WordPress root directory

ToddE

New Pleskian
After migrating a site to a new server and scanning for WordPress installations: I receive the following:

{"err_code":40001,"err_message":"Unable to read or execute files from WordPress root directory: D:\\PLESK\\VHOSTS\\pointmonitor.com\\httpdocs\/"} {"err_code":40003,"err_message":"Unable to read or execute files from wp-admin\/includes directory': D:\\PLESK\\VHOSTS\\pointmonitor.com\\httpdocs\/wp-admin\/includes"} {"err_code":40004,"err_message":"Unable to read or execute files from wp-includes directory: D:\\PLESK\\VHOSTS\\pointmonitor.com\\httpdocs\/wp-includes"} {"err_code":40005,"err_message":"Unable to read or execute files from wp-content directory: D:\\PLESK\\VHOSTS\\pointmonitor.com\\httpdocs\/wp-content"}

I cannot figure out what permissions it wants. Private server, so I do have access to IIS 7. I have run the Plesk Reconfigurator > Correct disk permissions: no joy.
 
Database structure is the same for Windows and Linux Plesk versions.
 
The KB article has been updated with a link to a patch for this issue:

https://kb.odin.com/en/127725

I can confirm it fixes the problem on Plesk 12.5 for Windows and Wordpress 4.4. I applied the patch and then had to run a "Resynchronize" operation on each of the affected WP sites.
 
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