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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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An error occured synchronizing windows with time.windows.com

Okay so I've tried stopping/registering the win32tm service on this Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Computer. C:\Users\Administrator>net stop w32time The Windows Time service is stopping. The Windows Time service was stopped…
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How does a replicated DC handles w32tm changes?

We have 2 replicated W2K8R2 DC's. I had updated one (DC1) with w32tm to get manual updates from asia NTP. Everything syncs correctly. My question: (In order to learn): How does this propagates to the replica (e.g. DC2)?
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inconsistant w32tm results

What can be the reason to get 2 different results when running C:\Documents and Settings\wswebuser.OPTI>w32tm /monitor OptiDC.opti *** PDC *** [192.168.0.2]: ICMP: 0ms delay. NTP: +0.0000000s offset from OptiDC.opti RefID:…
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Using w32tm to resync all computers on a domain

I've noticed the time on all of our computers seems to be off by about 5 minutes. I think most computers are set up to sync time with one of our servers. after running a net time or a w32tm /query /configuration I've found which server they are…
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Windows Time management: Domain Time II a neccessary product?

I ask as I have become part of a network where they have w32 time disabled on machines, and use Domain Time II. Product info here: http://www.greyware.com/software/domaintime/ Just curious if anyone else has experience. My question is really is it…
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W32Time sync problems for Hyper-V Guests (W32Time Event IDs 38, 24, 29, 35)

On my Windows guests running under Hyper-V in a domain environment, I noticed that the Windows Time service was having problems. Periodically, I was receiving the following three messages in the System log. Event Type: Information Event Source: …
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Replace w32tm with NTP on 2008 domain controller

We have a 2008 R2 domain spread over many sites around the world and have been using the built in w32tm service for quite some time. We have found that the times are inaccurate in the order of seconds between devices in the domain. More importantly…
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Time propogates with an offset

The network is simple, Two Domain Controllers Servers Client Workstations Other Devices The primary DC is configured to synchronize time with NTP servers. The secondary DC and other Servers are configured to synchronize with PDC. Time on the PDC…
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Time Synch Issue in Win Server OS

There is time sync issue in couple of server's. Below is the Description There are two identical server's with same OS and same set of software's running. And they are pretty new server's.In every 30 Min or so OS time gets changed to some random…
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w32time on win 2003 not syncing

We have a Windows 2003 file server with a Windows 2008 R2 DC. For a while this has been working fine, but now the time on the file server is drifting and not synching any more. The file server is a virtual machine. What is funny is that it has a…
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checking windows time sync from 2 computers with different times

I have 2 domain controllers, that are NOT on the same forest (they are on the same network though) I am trying to have both of them sync from the same time sync server (time.windows.com) so times will be approx the same. I have a major off set of…
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Intentional Time Skew for NTP on Windows Server (2016)

Due to a badly written interface, I have a need to ensure that server A is always a few seconds ahead of server B. (Yes I know this is a horrible thing to do) I have three broad solutions so far: (preferred) alter W32Time to set the clock X seconds…
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Windows NTP client not syncing with Linux server

I'm trying to synchronize the time of three computer on a local network. Although having the smallest drift/error possible with the world/internet would be grate, it is not my concert. My main concern is to have the best possible synchronization…
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Server Time Keeps Changing to 2 Hours in the Future

We have a Windows server that is part of a domain. The server's time keeps changing to two hours in the future. We have a large domain with many other servers that are not having issues. I have unregistered w32time and re-registered it. Edit: This…
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