Enable Same-Month Adjustments for "Days After Patch Tuesday" Schedules

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Paul Ofoche

Issue:
When adjusting "Days After Patch Tuesday" schedules after Patch Tuesday but before the scheduled run date, the system automatically shifts the run date to the following month upon saving. This behavior presents challenges for us, particularly when patching issues arise, and we need to delay patching by a day or two without deleting or recreating schedules. Managing this manually across our large number of host pools is cumbersome and prone to human error, despite the simplicity of adjusting the day count.

Proposed Solution:
Allow schedule changes to remain within the current month as long as the initial run date has not yet passed. If a user wishes to move the schedule to the following month, they could use the "Start Date" field for this purpose.

This adjustment would streamline schedule management and improve automation by reducing the need for repetitive, manual adjustments. Given that this is based on a monthly fixed date, it may have been overlooked in testing, but implementing this would significantly enhance efficiency for our organization.

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Toby Skerritt

Thanks for reporting this issue Paul Ofoche - were you able to modify the schedule to meet your requirements, or was that option not available? I'd like to understand if this is just a UI selection bug, or whether it presents functional issues. thanks.

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Paul Ofoche

We were unable to modify the recurring schedule to run in the current month, and had to create one-time schedules to reschedule the patching activities out of hours.
If you've already reached Patch Tuesday + 1*, saving the schedule will push the run date to the following month. (This is what we've experienced, not sure about Patch Tuesday + 0).

Example: Current date is 13th Nov 24.
Patch Tuesday is 12th Nov 24.
Schedule is set to run on Patch Tuesday + 2 (14 Nov 24).
If schedule is changed (on 13th Nov) to Patch Tuesday + 3 (with the intention of running on 15th Nov), after pressing save, the next run date of the schedule will be 13th Dec 24.

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