I was having issues with my 2008 servers clocks: they were running fast. After 30 days they were 2 minutes fast. 90 days they were 6 minutes. You can guess how fast they were after 120 days. Yay math!<\/p>\n
In XP and 2000 one could simply open up the date and time control panel (or double click on the clock) and, through some tabbed Internet Time, select a predetermined NTP server. Maybe I’m just blind, but I couldn’t find the option in 2008 or vista. It could be one of my GPO’s blocking said option. In any case, my clients were all receiving this “fast” time. Not good.<\/p>\n
To fix: I was having issues with my 2008 servers clocks: they were running fast. After 30 days they were 2 minutes fast. 90 days they were 6 minutes. You can guess how fast they were after 120 days. Yay math! In XP and 2000 one could simply open up the date and time control panel (or … Continue reading Windows Server 2008 NTP<\/span>
\nOpen up an administrative command window (windows key + r works wonders for me)
\nSet the NTP server to time-nw.nist.gov
\nnet time \/setsntp:time-nw.nist.gov<\/code>
\nMake sure that the NTP server has been saved
\nnet time \/querysntp<\/code>
\nSee where you’re grabbing your NTP information from (usually a domain controller)
\nnet time<\/code>
\nActually corrects the time to your NTP server
\nw32tm \/resync<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"