Alfresco 5.0 Community unable to create folders within share - windows

Question

I am trying to deploy Alfresco Community 5.0 on Windows Server 2012 R2, with IIS 8 and I have run into a little bit of a pickle. Currently, everything seems to be functioning as expected except for the creation of folders. I can add files and users, so I'm not really sure where to start.
When I try to create a new folder within the share site I am prompted with "Could not create 'new folder'. Duplicate folder name?" and I am entering a random name.
I checked the alfresco.log file and there is nothing in there.
If you need any extra information let me know.
IIS threw this exception.
Event code: 3005
Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred.
Event time: 3/10/2015 9:13:17 AM
Event time (UTC): 3/10/2015 3:13:17 PM
Event ID: 2a27fe7511504646bdc5cf85b4f428c1
Event sequence: 90
Event occurrence: 5
Event detail code: 0
Application information:
Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT-1-130704715600439291
Trust level: Full
Application Virtual Path: /
Application Path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\
Machine name: WEDNESDAY
Process information:
Process ID: 3352
Process name: w3wp.exe
Account name: IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool
Exception information:
Exception type: HttpException
Exception message: A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (:).
at System.Web.HttpRequest.ValidateInputIfRequiredByConfig()
at System.Web.HttpApplication.PipelineStepManager.ValidateHelper(HttpContext context)
Request information:
Request URL: http://wednesday/share/proxy/alfresco/api/type/cm:folder/formprocessor
Request path: /share/proxy/alfresco/api/type/cm:folder/formprocessor
User host address: 10.000.00.00
User:
Is authenticated: False
Authentication Type:
Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool
Thread information:
Thread ID: 8
Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool
Is impersonating: False
Stack trace: at System.Web.HttpRequest.ValidateInputIfRequiredByConfig()
at System.Web.HttpApplication.PipelineStepManager.ValidateHelper(HttpContext context)

Answer 1

asp.net 4.0 has quite extensive url validation. When Alfresco creates a folder it uses alfresco/api/type/cm:folder/formprocessor as the url. The validation rejects the use of : in url's so I added a regex function within my asp.net web.config file.
system.web>
httpRuntime requestPathInvalidCharacters="<,>,%,&,\,?" />
/system.web>
All of the other special characters are still getting validated, but I did not include ":" so now the url is allowed through.