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Steven L Chan - 29 Jul 2008 22:58 GMT

Hello All,

I'm a bit confused on the Windows Time Service setting under Windows 2003
Group Policy.

I want the Domain Controllers to get it's time from external resource,
namely: time.windows.com

and I want all member servers and clients to get it's time from the domain
controllers.

Under System/Windows Time Server for the Domain Controller:

Global Configuration Settings = Enabled

Under System/Windows Time Service/ Time Providers

Configure Windows NTP = Enabled

Configure Windows NTP Client = Enabled

Configure Windows NTP Server = Enabled

Is this correct?

Thanks,
Steven

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Florian Frommherz [MVP] - 30 Jul 2008 09:14 GMT

Steven,

> I'm a bit confused on the Windows Time Service setting under Windows
> 2003 Group Policy.
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> Configure Windows NTP Server = Enabled

All you need to do is configure the DC with the PDC-Emulator FSMO role
in the root domain with an external time resource. All other DCs of all
subdomains and the same domain will then sync their time with the DC.
Clients and members servers will then sync the time with their DCs.
That's normal behavior in AD domains.

cheers,

Florian

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