When you schedule a server policy or a Tiered Electronic Distribution (TED) Distribution, you can select its type of schedule. The type of schedule you select depends on which policy it is or what is contained in the Distribution.
For information the types of schedules, see The Schedule Types.
You can also define a window of opportunity during the day for when a schedule's action is to begin and end. Distributions are anticipated to occur during off-peak hours. For some networks, it is possible that the scheduling window can be very short. Other systems on the network also use off-peak hours for processing, such as backups.
You can have instances where the limiting factor is available time; therefore, the critical condition is how fast the distributions can take place, regardless of the resources consumed. You might need to experiment to determine the best relationship between time and resources.
Scheduling dictates when network resources are used by a Distribution.
For an understanding of some issues related to scheduling in Policy and Distribution Services, see Scheduling Issues.