Description

New setting available in the Distribution and Patch Agent settings for Policy Sync Schedule.

This became available starting in 2017.3 Service Update 5 and 2018.1. Your agents will have to be at this minimum agent level to take advantage of this new option.

"Additional Settings" section:

Information

This new setting allows for better control when scheduling Policysync.exe. The setting allows for you to set a threshold in minutes when Policysync runs and a task is scheduled to run moments later it would be skipped previously until the next Policysync runs.

Example

If you had a recurring policy's next runtime for 10:15 and Policysync ran at 10:14 it would not execute the recurring policy until it ran at 11:14. This caused some tasks that were scheduled hourly to run once every two hours.

The new setting allows you to set a window so that every time Policysync runs it will run any recurring policy with a time that has already passed.

So if the setting is set for 10 minutes, and policysync runs at 10:14, it will also execute any recurring policy that has a run time before the set threshold. If a policy had a runtime of 10:23, and is executed at 10:14, its next runtime will be changed to 11:14. And from that point onward the run time will very closely match that of the policysync.