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NTP, Network time protocol

Hi All,

I work at a college with about 400 workstations and we do not use active directory.  The workstations are running Windows 10 and a few Windows 7.

How do I configure NTP (Network Time Protocol) on our workstations to update it’s time on one of our local servers?

Please help and thank you in advance.
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bbao

8/22/2022 - Mon
Dan Craciun

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DateTime\Servers

HTH,
Dan
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Thanks Dan,
When I get to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DateTime\Servers do I enter the ip address for the local server?  I want our workstations date and time to always be in sync with our local server.

Also, is there any configurations needed on the local server?
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> we do not use active directory.
> I want our workstations date and time to always be in sync with our local server.

as you don't use AD and you do want to sync time for heaps of PCs, it seems one choice is to add the above NET TIME command into the startup script of the PCs. then you no need to setup the time preferences over GUI one by one, though you need to have local admin rights to remotely access the PCs one bye one or by a script.