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Add advanced scheduling to support patch Tuesday

We typically apply patches the weekend after Patch Tuesday but it's not always the second weekend of the month so we can't schedule it with the options available.

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  • James Mercer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We need this too.

    Test /Dev = PatchTuesday + 4 days
    Prod = PatchTuesday + 9 days

    As Joe mentioned it never always falls on a 3rd or 4th week of the month. We need to be able to schedule 'relative to' patch tuesday.

    Thanks

  • Justen Hansen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I support this request as well as having an offset so that I can patch 4 days after Patch Tuesday; effective the Saturday after Patch Tuesday.

  • Tommy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It is very important feature to have the offset value that can be set from the "patch tuesday". Now it is missing and make the scheduling not possible

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    or if not explicit "patch tuesday" support, a patch on release day + N or weekend +N from the release day.

    We like to patch test and UAT on the day or so after release, then production a week or two later at the weekend. Impossible to achieve under the current mechanism

    This allows for any post-patch tuesday fixed to be picked up and attended to in a timely and safe (i.e. non production first) manner

  • Stefan Hirsch commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a core feature that we need. We solved this with an automation job that runs and check which day it is.

  • David Darling commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be nice if we could Schedule security updates and patches on a monthly recurring schedule based on patch Tuesday (and then +/- days). The reason is this, if we want to set recurring monthly schedules where updates are deployed to Dev on patch Tuesday, System Test on the following Wednesday, Stage on the following Thursday, and finally Production on the following Friday -- we have no way of doing this.

    Sure, we can schedule "Every second Tuesday", but that doesn't necessarily mean that "Every second Wednesday" is going to be the day after that.

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