Re: NTP Server Question

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Found the answer, thanks for your help. What do you think is the best
solution, GP, DHCP, or Manually? :

On Windows NT4/2K/XP/2003/Vista/2008, if the server that gets contacted is
in a different time zone than the client, the server's time is displayed in
the time zone of the client (in other words if I'm in Pacific Time on my NT
machine, but I happen to authenticate with a server in the Eastern Time
zone, the time on my local machine will be set to Pacific time). However, on
Win 3.x,95 and 98 machines in the Pacific time zone syncing to an Eastern
time zone server would have their time set to Eastern time.

"Ovidio B." <rome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Heres a better question:

If i manually set the server to a "different" time zone, ie, Central time,
will the PDC emulator try to bring it Eastern Standard Time IF the PDC is
set to east coast?

"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
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Hello Ovidio B.,

see inline

Best regards

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Hi Meinolf Weber,

Thank you for you responce. The reason that I would like to use a
different time source is because a small number of people need their
App servers to be set w/west coast time for some of their application
automated jobs: sending newsletters at a PST time instead of EST time
ect. I'll search online on how to setup the PDC Emulator to sync up
with different time sources, but for now you could answer it just in
case ;) and i'll pick ur brain a little:

1. How do i setup the PDCEmulator to sync up with a differnet time
source?

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/ce8890cf-ef46-4931-8e4a-2fc5b4ddb0471033.mspx?mfr=true

2. How do I configure the new time sources with those computers?

Think you mean this:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/f/?en/library/8990703a-a197-4717-b6e5-b7406d9f91f01033.mspx

3. Can a group policy be created to point these guys in a particular
OU to a
different NTP server

Go to Computer configuration, Administrative templates, System, Windows
time service, right pane CONFIGURE WINDOWS NTP CLIENT

4. Well setting up a server option scope in DHCP work?

Time server ioption in DHCP scope options is possible, 004 Time server,
either with ip or server name

"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
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Hello Ovidio B.,

1.
In a domain you have the PDCEmulator which is the Time source in the
domain by default. All other DC's will sync with that and the member
servers and workstations will sync with one of the available DC's.
2.
Yes, if you have a time difference it can happen that you can not
join new
machines for example.
Why will you use different time sources? You can configure the
PDCEmulator to sync with more then one external time source.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Greetings,

I have one medium AD domain enviornment with 2 DCs , but I want a
small portion of my domain computer members to recieve their time
from a different NTP source. Is this possible?

Basic Q's:
1. Are all members of the domain automatically synced with the DC's?
2. Do all computers have to be synced up with the DC's time to login
to the
domain?
Please advise, thanks a million :)






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