RE: Time synchronization

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From: Dodger (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:43:15 -0700

Is there any difference if you have only Windows 2000
Professional clients, rather than XP clients?

>-----Original Message-----
>To synchronize your SBS server with an external NTP
server, you will need
>to verify that the w32time service is running, and that
it is pointed to
>your preferred NTP server. To see what NTP server your
system is
>configured for, run "net time /querysntp" from a command
prompt. If you
>want to change the server, run "net time /setsntp:<SNTP
server IP>". As
>for the clients, if their w32time service is running and
they are joined to
>a domain, they will automatically look to the forest
root for a time server
>
>Thank you,
>--------------------------
>Jonathan Lotman
>Microsoft Online Support Engineer
>
>Microsoft Corporation
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>| I've read a lot of the Windows Time Services
>| documentation from Microsoft, but I'm still not sure
what
>| the right process is to sync time in a SBS 2003
>| environment. We have a single domain with a single
SBS
>| 2003 server, with 6 clients (all XP Professional). How
do
>| we:
>|
>| 1) Keep the server automatically sync'd with an
external
>| trusted time server?
>|
>| 2) Keep the clients automatically time sync'd with the
>| server?
>|
>| Thank
>|
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>.
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