Windows 2003 Net Time

May 12, 2008

I recently upgraded from a windows 2000 to a 2003 one forest one domain,

domain and have 8 sites. Four US sites and four overseas sites. I found

out by accident that if I do a net time command from a client at any

site it returns the time from our Bangkok (non PDC emulator) domain

controller. If the Bangkok domain controller is unavailable it hits the

next domain controller in alphabetical order. I have the PDC emulator

pointed to two internal time sync appliances on our network by ip

address separated by a space. After replacing a leased domain

controller, I noticed the default installation of a domain controller

creates a registry setting for the ntpserver under w32time\parameters

for time.windows.com. Isn't this going outside the domain for the time?

Has anyone had this issue and if so what should the registry settings be

for the other domain controllers on the domain? Will that take care of

the net time issue? I haven't noticed any issues on the domain, but

assume that I will at some point if I don't get the net time command to

return time from a domain controller in the same site as the client.

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vmtraver

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