Changing time servers

October 27, 2004 12:28 PM | | Comments (2)

Changing a w2k3 server to get the time from the internet can be done by following the useful instructions from a microsoft techie at http://www.mcse.ms/message1107338.html

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By Dave on October 27, 2004 1:37 PM

If you don't want to edit your registry, you could also just type this command on the machine you want as well:

net time /setsntp:[ip address of known ntp server]

Note that all machines within a domain will sync with DC unless you tell it otherwise in GPO. What we do at work is another server syncs with NIST and then our DCs sync with that particular machine. Then it naturally bleeds down to all clients.

By Andy on October 27, 2004 4:45 PM

Actually thats not quite true - the above command didn't actually get
the pdc to sync with an external machine on the internet. It was only
when we changed one of the registry entires (the announce flags) that
the pdc got the time from the ntp server on the internet. The announce
flag doesn't seem to get set by the net time /setsntp command.
Also the weird thing is there is no interface (apart from restarting
the w32 time service) for doing the equivalent of net time /sntp /set.
The /set forces the machine to contact the PDC which is of no use when
you are doing this on the pdc itself

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