The distribution agent failed to create temporary files in ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\COM’ directory.
Shortly after configuring a new SQL Server 2012 server as a pull subscriber to a publication on a SQL Server 2008 Publisher/Distributor, we began receiving the following error message from the replication agents/jobs: The root cause, after much searching and testing theories, was permissions on the subscriber COM directory. The fix was to simply grant…