Automatic Maintenance Random Delay 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. This settings is useful for Virtual Machines where the randomizing maintenance may be a performance requirement. If you enable this policy setting, Automatic Maintenance will delay starting from its Activation Boundary, by upto this time. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, 30 minute random delay will be applied to Automatic Maintenance starting on virtual machines and none otherwise.

(1) GPO: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Maintenance Scheduler!Automatic Maintenance Random Delay (2) WMI: ###