Brandie Tarvin - Monday, July 17, 2017 8:00 AM

Okay... And now cutting and pasting the quote did weird justification things to my sig...

Oh, well. On to the thing I was going to post.

I absolutely hate it when corporate changes standards on us without warning. For instance, we have long NAS share names that include special characters like hypens and underscores. Basically ABC_DEF_Environment kind of thing. But when I requested a new share called XYZ_SRTThing, I'm told not only can I not have the underscore characters in the share name, but that the total length of the share, including the tree name, can't be longer than 15 characters.

So if that's right, I only get six characters to name my share, plus I have to ensure the share has the application name in it which in several instances is longer than six characters, plus I have to put the environment (Test, QC, Production) after it. Which leaves me with ... no characters for the share name?

I swear Corporate hates us. People must come up with requirements like this so they don't have to do any work...