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Active Directory: on a virtual domain controller clocks are skewed

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ June 23, 2008 / Leave a comment

When I open the “Active Directly Sites and Services” console, I got the following error message. My Windows Hyper-V server is sitting in a workgroup. The server it is not syncing to a external NTP time server. One of my domain controllers is running on this host where I had...

Posted in Windows Active Directory
NTP and network protocol analyzer session

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ March 8, 2008 / Leave a comment

After I reconfigured my Windows Time Service I download and installed WireShark network protocol analyzer tool. I start capturing all traffic on my physical Ethernet interface for more than 12 hours. I was wondering what kind of traffic was generated by my windows client after I configured the NTP server...

Posted in Windows
Verify your Windows Time service

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ March 7, 2008 / Leave a comment

When I verify my time difference between my local system and the time.windows.com NTP server I see I have 11 seconds difference. Execute the following commands to check your local time service. Open a command prompt Type w32tm /stripchart /computer:time.windows.com /samples:5 /dataonly I trust Microsoft that they are well maintaining...

Posted in Windows

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