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Questions tagged [w32time]

w32time is a component of the Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was first shipped in the Windows 2000 release. It is used to keep the time on windows machines in sync and is especially geared for windows machines that are members of active directory.

More information about the components behaviour is available at the following resources.

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Domain member server's time is drifting

I have a Windows 2008R2 server that is a member of a domain. The other day I found that its time was different from the domain controller by seven seconds. I ran the following command... w32tm /config /syncfromflags:domhier /update net stop…
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What is my time source server 2003

Have just had a bit of an issue with our time setup after an issue with our PDC. Am on clear up duty now but am struggling with some 2003 servers. On server 2008 I can run w32tm /query /source and it responds with the DC that it has synced time…
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Time Service will not start on Windows Server - System error 1290

I have been trying to sort out some time sync issues involving two domain controllers and seem to have ended up with a bigger problem. It's horrible. They are both virtual machines (one being on Amazon EC2), which I think may complicate things…
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How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server

I have a performance lab running behind a firewall, so none of the machines in the lab has internet access. All machines in the lab are part of a domain with the domain controller also present inside the lab. The problem is that some server's time…
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Windows Time out of sync

We have 5 virtual Windows 2003 servers running Citrix in our company, that users can log onto, Every so often one of the servers will change it's date/time so far ahead, users are unable to log on because of the time difference between the 2003…
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Configuring time sync on domain

I have an AD domain (2 dcs single domain) and a number of member servers. I need to configure time synchronisation so that everything is in sync. There is a lot of fluff on this topic. Does anyone have a simple list of commands to run? And I've…
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Catch Windows system log events to a text file

I need to capture w32time events to a text file for a silly compliance requirement. Is there a way to that in Windows?
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w32tm returning inconsistent results

We've got a Hyper-V environment where the time is running around like a headless chicken. Some days when I come in, it's 10 minutes slow. Other days, it's 5 minutes fast. Today it's over 30 minutes slow. Every day I re-sync the time manually, and 24…
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W32Time doesn't respect MaxPosPhaseCorrection settings

I'm having a problem with W32Time service on Windows Server 2019 not respecting the default limit on positive time offsets (MaxPosPhaseCorrection/MaxNegPhaseCorrection = 15 days). The server is running on AWS as non-domain joined and the time…
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Why is my internal clock always 1.3 seconds off?

I ran w32tm /stripchart /computer:time.windows.com just for fun and found out that my clock is 1.3 seconds behind this timeserver. Not that I think Microsoft is wrong, but I tried it with various other timeservers in my city just to eliminate…
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W32time on 2016

Virtual server on MS 2016, on a domain, w32time is disabled. What is required so that time sync works with best practice to sync with domain DC? Other MS 2012 R2 have w32time running but manual(triggered start). Should it be automatic or manual? GPO…
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Increasing the accuracy of windows 2003 NTP time sync

Hi using w32tm or some other service (NTP W32Time) is there away to increase the accuracy of windows time to sync at-least every 1sec? Whats setup; windows 2003 AD environment with a few servers and AD clients. At the moment when users log on to the…
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How to Configure Server 2008r2 as a NTP server when it is neither on a domain or a DC

Here is the setup: We have Windows Server 2008R2 servers at customer sites. For separation of trust reasons, those machines are not members of the Customers Domain. They are also not acting as a Domain host themselves, they are strictly stand alone…
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w32time unable to get proper sync

I have a problem manifesting in our network that the main DC PDC Emulator is not able to have a proper time. It is off around 80 seconds pretty much all of the time and I am at a loss on how to fix that. The machine is right now virtual (though I…
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configure time sync for azure VMs

I have several ExtraSmall-sized Azure VMs (PaaS / Cloud Service based) that are all experiencing drifting of the Windows clock. Research showed that this is quite common, especially in VMs with shared cores. Unfortunately even after configuring the…
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