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If you go to HKLM\System\CurrentControl<wbr />Set\Servic<wbr />es\W32Time<wbr />\Parameter<wbr />s, for the key &quot;Type&quot; do the client machines have a value of NT5DS? &nbsp;
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If you go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters, for the key "Type" do the client machines have a value of NT5DS?  

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The default type is NT5DS and should be getting time from you DC. Make sure it has the type NT5DS. You can just run these command to set those machines to get time from your domain:<br />
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w32tm /config /syncfromflags:DOMHIER /update<br />
w32tm /resync
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The default type is NT5DS and should be getting time from you DC. Make sure it has the type NT5DS. You can just run these command to set those machines to get time from your domain:

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:DOMHIER /update
w32tm /resync

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We have a Server 2003 functional level Active Directory envirnoment. &nbsp;We have set all domain controllers sntp service's to sync with our PDC Emulator. &nbsp;Yet for some reason we have random client computers, both XP SP3 and Vista SP1, where the time is off by as much as 10 minutes and the querysntp command reveals they using time.windows.com.
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We have a Server 2003 functional level Active Directory envirnoment.  We have set all domain controllers sntp service's to sync with our PDC Emulator.  Yet for some reason we have random client computers, both XP SP3 and Vista SP1, where the time is off by as much as 10 minutes and the querysntp command reveals they using time.windows.com.

Domain time not syncing properly on client machines

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