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Hi,

 

Just finished doing server updates. Now I have noticed the date and time are

two days ahead. Is there any problem with just changing the time? Novell

doesn't like to have system time changed like that.

 

Thanks

 

John H

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"Learn from the mistakes of others! You can't live long enough to make them

all yourself!!"

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Guest Robert L \(MS-MVP\)
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Re: Incorrect date and time

 

If you don't correct the time, that may cause a problem.

 

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"john" <john@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:E630BD40-63CC-4F24-B077-C5800B5B8580@microsoft.com...

> Hi,

>

> Just finished doing server updates. Now I have noticed the date and time

> are

> two days ahead. Is there any problem with just changing the time? Novell

> doesn't like to have system time changed like that.

>

> Thanks

>

> John H

> --

> "Learn from the mistakes of others! You can't live long enough to make

> them

> all yourself!!"

Guest Ryan Hanisco
Posted

RE: Incorrect date and time

 

John,

 

Windows doesn't have the same dependency on time that Novell does because of

the nature of windows replication and the communication that happens with the

FSMO roles. You'll not have to worry about synthetic time and the like in

windows.

 

The biggest issues come with Kerberos and object timestamps, but unless

you've been making a ton of changes to your AD from the domain controllers

that are off, you'll be OK. I would suggest that you specify an SNTP server

on your PDCe and force your other DCs to sync with that -- note that they'll

appear off if they have a different time zone setting so you should check

that too.

 

I would also recommend using REPLMON to do an outbound synchronization from

the DCs that are off and then force the time sync with net time

/domain:<Domain FQDN>

 

Good luck.

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Ryan Hanisco

MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+

http://www.techsterity.com

Chicago, IL

 

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"john" wrote:

> Hi,

>

> Just finished doing server updates. Now I have noticed the date and time are

> two days ahead. Is there any problem with just changing the time? Novell

> doesn't like to have system time changed like that.

>

> Thanks

>

> John H

> --

> "Learn from the mistakes of others! You can't live long enough to make them

> all yourself!!"


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