Re: Controlling of Client PCs Time Settings

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On Aug 21, 6:10 am, "Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-
wizards(dot)com> wrote:
Hi Owen:

Trying to chase this down a bit and I see a couple of posts from usually
knowledable folks who offer the advice that the net time command will not
work unless the user has local admin rights, which, of course, is (usually)
(somewhat) frowned upon.

Second, the time sync process should bring the client workstation back into
conformity with the domain-controller, but not if one is not able to logon
because the time is off.

So, what to do? Manually adjust the time for the first logon and then watch
to see if it drifts? I actually have not had a problem with this other than
DST issues of everyone being off by one hour, but that's another story. :-)

Larry

"Owen Williams [SBS MVP]" <Owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:MPG.2133b17f4dc566df989a6e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In article <OT8iwC14HHA....@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, nore...@xxxxxxxxxxxx
says...

I synch my workstations with the server using the SBS login.bat so
everytime
they login if it is out of synch it will be corrected.

net time \\servername /set /y.

Although I do the same thing, in theory it's not necessary if the
standard SBS login script (SBS_LOGIN_SCRIPT.bat) is being run. It
includes the line:

\\SBServer\Clients\Setup\setup.exe /s SBServer

Among the many things setup.exe does is sync the time.

-- Owen Williams (SBS MVP)

That's a good point, though my user could log in, just couldn't do
anything from there. You could put the script to run on start up
using group policy.

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