iis 7 - IIS 7 Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS fail with ampersand in URL

IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

I have added the following rule to my web.config to redirect all incoming request to HTTPS

It fails when ampersands (&) are present in the URL or file name. I've looked at some of the solutions offered and am not interested in allowing special characters through the registry. Is there a way to perform a rewrite to encode the ampersand to & or %26 prior to the redirect rule? Does the HTTPS redirect rule use the original URL or the newly rewritten/encoded version?