Maintenance Window Enhancements

As most of our maintenance windows are linked to patching Tuesday (like in most companies?) each month, this is a much needed improvement.

a year later and still looking for better recurrence options.

"The recent maintenance window enhancements demonstrate a strong commitment to improving system reliability and minimizing downtime. Such proactive measures are essential for delivering a seamless user experience and maintaining operational efficiency. Looking forward to seeing the positive impact of these improvements."

I want to bump this, as it is a continual problem for us, and I expect for most shops.  Here’s the issue:  Most of our maintenance windows are planned for something like “Every 2nd Tuesday of the month”.  There is no way to accommodate this in the current system other than to manually schedule ever maintenance window.  This is cumbersome and difficult to manage consistently.  Looking for something more like this:

Just to add one point in case this gets further consideration…  It’s very standard as Microsoft adheres to the “2nd Tuesday of every month”.  What would be very useful to accompany this would be a feature that also allow +/- n days.  So for example, “every second Tuesday + 4 days” as the window.  Often patches are released and then we need time to test and want to apply on the weekend or off hours.  This would provide enough flexibility.  Also trying to create a schedule after the 2nd Tuesday is not always the 2nd Saturday depending on what day the month starts on. It’s very difficult to create a schedule without this feature coupled with it.