It's always been challenging to automate patching, and distribute the schedules across the month because the months all start on different weekdays which causes the nth weekday of the month to vary a bit around patch Tuesday, with patch Tues always being the 2nd. For example, the month (Oct 2024), the Monday following patch Tues is actually the 2nd Monday of the month. Intuitively, because patch Tues is the 2nd Tues, we might expect the following Monday to be the 3rd Monday but it isn't.
So this offset thing is GREAT! Now, we're setting up everything to go on the 2nd Tuesday + an offset, and which weekday of the month we're aiming for no longer matters.
We just learned that the GUI only allows for a 7 day offset though. PowerShell can be used to set larger offsets, however. We're working on figuring out the command syntax for that now.
Thanks for the offset option!