Setting SBS2003 as NTP Time Server

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From: Steve (Steve_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:55:02 -0800

I have read many submissions about performance issues because of time
synchronisation, but have problems trying to configure my SBS2003 Std Server.

My clients (all xp/sp2) are not synching with the server, time service on
problem computers are set to automatic but are not running.

Everything that I try fails. Knowledge base articles lead to dead ends.

When I enter the "net time" command, it can not find the server.

When I enter the "net time /setsntp:" to any of the published time servers,
it says ok, but the "net time" command fails afterwards, can not find the
time server.

I want to ensure that the sbs2003 is synching with a time server, and want
to know that all clients are synching with the sbs2003 server. Is there a
simple way of doing this, then verifying that all is working, monitoring that
the services are running on connected clients? Group Policy?

Right now, it just looks like there are no functional time servers out
there, and that internal synchronisation is totally turned off.....

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