Rolled into work this morning and was wondering if it was a Saturday or if I missed a holiday somewhere...
Parking lot was nearly empty, I found a spot nearly...

As a counterpoint to being excited about the new features:  https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/06/automated-tuning-and-the-future-of-performance-tuners/ 

My nickels worth on the topic of auto-tuning databases and the like is probably going to sound...

As a thought, I'm wondering if the SQL Agent is running into a permission problem (either unable to run xp_fixeddrives, or being denied access to the drives themselves)

Try...

Anyone want to work on migrating the pork chop launcher to a 105mm version?
We could keep this out at Steve's place, he's got a farm...
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Tossing in my 2c worth...

To everyone bashing on MS and the update process, what would you have them do?  If they don't force installation of updates, then you...

Well, we've moved the error further down.

I don't have WinSCP loaded anywhere, I'll look at spinning up a VM later today and loading it there to give some...

No, the naming conventions for the files isn't "hard coded" into SQL.  You could've used any extension (except probably executables) for the second file with no problems (beyond the obvious...