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Setting time on Windows 2008

I have my AD DC set the time for my network. Since it’s not really that good at keeping time I had to set the DC to pull the time from the govn’ment. I set all this via command line in Windows 2008. I would cite where I got this from but didn’t note it at the time, sorry!

### steps to set up NTP servers on DC ###
0. make sure UDP port 123 is open bi-directionally
1. stop time service (net stop w32time or in list of services)
2. configure external sources-
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"0.pool.ntp.org,1.pool.ntp.org,2.pool.ntp.org" /syncfromflags:manual 
3. set DC as reliable-
w32tm /config /reliable:yes
4: start time service (same as above)
5. check event viewer for errors

So once the DC is ‘cool’ for time giving, how is far off is it?

### to check how off your time is ###
w32tm /stripchart /computer:0.pool.ntp.org /dataonly

Then set the DC to use the internet time.

### to set your time to internet time ###
W32tm /resync /computer:time.windows.com /nowait

Then on each client machine you use the following to set them to use the DC for time giving-

### set time from DC ### 
net time \\home.server.com /set /y

Good luck!

UPDATE-

This time I made note of where I got the instructions from- https://www.faqforge.com/windows-server-2016/configure-ntp-server-windows-server-2016/. The only addition this makes is to note the PowerShell command to update on the client side.

May 3, 2016

Large freighter – expanded gallery

I had a chance to take some additional photos of this ship. No changes to it though, you can check out the prior post for the details. You can also check it out in-progress, first pass or second pass.