Re: Windows Time service to use an external time source issue

My personal opinion, for what it is worth, is that the KB article you referenced is unfortunate - everything needed can be done simply with the w32tm command - there is no need to edit the registry directly, which is unnecessarily dangerous.

If you're interested, you might find the thread "time sync from NTP in win 2003" in the newsgroup "microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory" and the thread "domain controller time service" in this newsgroup (microsoft.public.windows.server.general) informative. There are several references to reasonably good Microsoft documentation in those threads.

See also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830092.

Try again using the following set of commands on the domain controller you want to be the root of your time synchronization hierarchy (usually, but not always, the one with the PDC Emulator FSMO Role).

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:time.nist.com /reliable:yes /update
w32tm /resync /rediscover

In the first command, instead of time.nist.com, you can specify any NTP server you prefer - see http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome for a fairly comprehensive list. Use the nslookup command to make sure the computer can resolve the DNS name of the server you choose; if it can't, you need to resolve the DNS problem first.

It might be useful to use the following command on the other domain controllers so that they will synchronize with the root of the time synchronization heirarchy (the Domain controller that you ran the above commands on):

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:domhier /reliable:no /update
w32tm /resync /rediscover

If that doesn't solve the problem, please post copies of the Event Log entries that have "Time-Service" as the Source (System Event Log) from the one configured as "reliable" and I (we) will try to help some more.

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"stargaten" <stargaten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:27ACA45C-7D7C-4821-A064-702AEEAE1969@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello all,

Well, I followed the KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042 to
use an external time source for my domain. I thought the procedure went well
until I ran the following: w32tm /resync /rediscover and I received the
following message:

Sending resync command to local computer...
The computer did not resync because no time data was available.

I have used time.windows.com and my ISPs NTP server same issue.

Also, I'm receiving Event ID 38 in the System event logs.

I have also checked my GPOs Default and DC policy and the items pertaining
to windows time are not configured.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks


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