diff --git a/src/applications/drydock/blueprint/DrydockPreallocatedHostBlueprintImplementation.php b/src/applications/drydock/blueprint/DrydockPreallocatedHostBlueprintImplementation.php
index af6a9e5f2f..9e5d3a2320 100644
--- a/src/applications/drydock/blueprint/DrydockPreallocatedHostBlueprintImplementation.php
+++ b/src/applications/drydock/blueprint/DrydockPreallocatedHostBlueprintImplementation.php
@@ -1,129 +1,116 @@
 <?php
 
 final class DrydockPreallocatedHostBlueprintImplementation
   extends DrydockBlueprintImplementation {
 
   public function isEnabled() {
     return true;
   }
 
   public function getBlueprintName() {
     return pht('Preallocated Remote Hosts');
   }
 
   public function getDescription() {
     return pht('Allows Drydock to run on specific remote hosts you configure.');
   }
 
   public function canAllocateMoreResources(array $pool) {
     return false;
   }
 
   protected function executeAllocateResource(DrydockLease $lease) {
     throw new Exception(
       pht("Preallocated hosts can't be dynamically allocated."));
   }
 
   protected function canAllocateLease(
     DrydockResource $resource,
     DrydockLease $lease) {
     return
       $lease->getAttribute('platform') === $resource->getAttribute('platform');
   }
 
   protected function shouldAllocateLease(
     DrydockResource $resource,
     DrydockLease $lease,
     array $other_leases) {
     return true;
   }
 
   protected function executeAcquireLease(
     DrydockResource $resource,
     DrydockLease $lease) {
 
     // Because preallocated resources are manually created, we should verify
     // we have all the information we need.
     PhutilTypeSpec::checkMap(
       $resource->getAttributesForTypeSpec(
         array('platform', 'host', 'port', 'credential', 'path')),
       array(
         'platform' => 'string',
         'host' => 'string',
         'port' => 'string', // Value is a string from the command line
         'credential' => 'string',
         'path' => 'string',
       ));
     $v_platform = $resource->getAttribute('platform');
     $v_path = $resource->getAttribute('path');
 
     // Similar to DrydockLocalHostBlueprint, we create a folder
     // on the remote host that the lease can use.
 
     $lease_id = $lease->getID();
 
     // Can't use DIRECTORY_SEPERATOR here because that is relevant to
     // the platform we're currently running on, not the platform we are
     // remoting to.
     $separator = '/';
     if ($v_platform === 'windows') {
       $separator = '\\';
     }
 
     // Clean up the directory path a little.
     $base_path = rtrim($v_path, '/');
     $base_path = rtrim($base_path, '\\');
     $full_path = $base_path.$separator.$lease_id;
 
     $cmd = $lease->getInterface('command');
 
-    if ($v_platform !== 'windows') {
-      $cmd->execx('mkdir %s', $full_path);
-    } else {
-      // Windows is terrible. The mkdir command doesn't even support putting
-      // the path in quotes. IN QUOTES. ARGUHRGHUGHHGG!! Do some terribly
-      // inaccurate sanity checking since we can't safely escape the path.
-      if (preg_match('/^[A-Z]\\:\\\\[a-zA-Z0-9\\\\\\ ]/', $full_path) === 0) {
-        throw new Exception(
-          pht(
-            'Unsafe path detected for Windows platform: "%s".',
-            $full_path));
-      }
-      $cmd->execx('mkdir %C', $full_path);
-    }
+    $cmd->execx('mkdir %s', $full_path);
 
     $lease->setAttribute('path', $full_path);
   }
 
   public function getType() {
     return 'host';
   }
 
   public function getInterface(
     DrydockResource $resource,
     DrydockLease $lease,
     $type) {
 
     switch ($type) {
       case 'command':
         return id(new DrydockSSHCommandInterface())
           ->setConfiguration(array(
             'host' => $resource->getAttribute('host'),
             'port' => $resource->getAttribute('port'),
             'credential' => $resource->getAttribute('credential'),
             'platform' => $resource->getAttribute('platform'),
           ))
           ->setWorkingDirectory($lease->getAttribute('path'));
       case 'filesystem':
         return id(new DrydockSFTPFilesystemInterface())
           ->setConfiguration(array(
             'host' => $resource->getAttribute('host'),
             'port' => $resource->getAttribute('port'),
             'credential' => $resource->getAttribute('credential'),
           ));
     }
 
     throw new Exception(pht("No interface of type '%s'.", $type));
   }
 
 }