Automatic Maintenance Random Delay
- Policy ID
- RandomDelayPolicy
- Scope
- Computer Configuration
- Supported on
- At least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT
- Source
- Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
- Category
- Windows Components › Maintenance Scheduler
Description
This policy setting allows you to configure Automatic Maintenance activation random delay.
The maintenance random delay is the amount of time up to which Automatic Maintenance will delay starting from its Activation Boundary.
If you enable this policy setting, Automatic Maintenance will delay starting from its Activation Boundary, by upto this time.
If you do not configure this policy setting, 4 hour random delay will be applied to Automatic Maintenance.
If you disable this policy setting, no random delay will be applied to Automatic Maintenance.
Options
Registry
ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- RandomizedREG_DWORD
- Random DelayREG_SZ