I would like to use a master job to deploy maintenance scripts. One of the requirements is to stagger the schedule. For example, separate the DBCC a few minutes for instances sharing the same set of disks (either on direct attached disk or on a SAN). I can't think of a way to do this except perhaps to create a master job that creates and schedules a regular job. Sure would be nice if there was an option to add some customization for each target.

Also, when supporting 2008+, do you have to use a SQL 2008 server for the master? Can you use SQL 2012 with jobs provided everything in the job is compatible with a SQL 2008 system?