diff --git a/acceptance/bundle/deployment/bind/experiment/script b/acceptance/bundle/deployment/bind/experiment/script
index f1161cd9b..46a631aea 100644
--- a/acceptance/bundle/deployment/bind/experiment/script
+++ b/acceptance/bundle/deployment/bind/experiment/script
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ title "Substitute variables in the template"
 BUNDLE_NAME_SUFFIX=$(uuid)
 export BUNDLE_NAME_SUFFIX
 
-EXPERIMENT_NAME="/Workspace/Users/${CURRENT_USER_NAME}/test-experiment$(uuid)"
+# double slash at the start prevents Windows to apply replacements to the path
+EXPERIMENT_NAME="//Workspace/Users/${CURRENT_USER_NAME}/test-experiment$(uuid)"
 if [ -z "$CLOUD_ENV" ]; then
-    EXPERIMENT_NAME="/Workspace/Users/${CURRENT_USER_NAME}/test-experiment6260d50f-e8ff-4905-8f28-812345678903"   # use hard-coded uuid when running locally
+    EXPERIMENT_NAME="//Workspace/Users/${CURRENT_USER_NAME}/test-experiment6260d50f-e8ff-4905-8f28-812345678903"   # use hard-coded uuid when running locally
 fi
 export EXPERIMENT_NAME
 envsubst < databricks.yml > out.yml && mv out.yml databricks.yml