windows server 2003 clock fast by 5 minutes resulting in all clients clocks fast
i have a windows server 2003 DC and an exchange server that acts as a backup Dc, the clokc on my DC is 5 min fats and when all the clients sync they are 5 minutes fast, if i change the clock on the clients or the Dc it eventually goes back when it syncs wherever it synce to. how do i fix this?
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i followed the instructions to configure itself form the internal clock, is that what i want or should i configure it to an external source?
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can you please provide more details on how to set the group policy, i configured the time to synce with an external source already
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i did it, thanks i'll let you know if it worked
You can import this reg file on your PDC to set the time sync settings automatically.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23630502/Authoritative-Time-Server.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23630502/Authoritative-Time-Server.html
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now how do i know if the change worked, how long till my clients see the new time?
You can run the w32tm /rsync /rediscover on a client which will sync to the PDC right then. The changes will work. I haven't had one time when the reg didn't sync correctly.
On one of your clients you can go into the event viewer and look under the system option - you should see an entry with w32 time as the header and in the body it will show synchronizing from server....
I did all of these things and when I ran the rediscover command on the client I got "The computer did not resync because no time data was available".
I had to make sure I put my internal computer name correctly in the NTP field: servername.localdomainname
That worked. Just thought this might help someone else.
That worked. Just thought this might help someone else.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042
Another good article
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Configuring-Windows-Time-Service.html