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Category: Web

stuff about web design, development, trends, and tricks

  • 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.

  • New Hosting

    This should be my first post on my new hosting. It really was simple to move to A2 hosting; grab all my files, backup my database, upload my files, create and import the database. The hardest part was getting the config file set correctly. They don’t mention anywhere the database servername should be localhost ’cause it’s obvious when you think about it so why write it down anywhere?

    Ah, well, we will see how this goes.

  • More tips for WordPress

    Found a few articles and links and want to keep ’em handy.

    This one will help make the permalinks look less ‘bloggy’: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-no-category-base/

    Better search experience and styling: http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/nice-search/

    Better CMS functionality within WP: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fresh-page/

    An explaination on how to utilize multisite and some coding to leverage it: http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/17/wordpress-multisite-practical-functions-methods/

    Enjoy!