{"id":388,"date":"2008-03-07T22:53:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T21:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/388"},"modified":"2008-03-07T22:54:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T21:54:40","slug":"verify-your-windows-time-service-with-microsoft-windows-ntp-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/388","title":{"rendered":"Verify your Windows Time service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I verify my time difference between my local system and the time.windows.com NTP server I see I have 11 seconds difference.<\/p>\n<p>Execute the following commands to check your local time service.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open a command prompt <\/li>\n<li>Type w32tm \/stripchart \/computer:time.windows.com \/samples:5 \/dataonly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/VerifyyourWindowsTimeservice_13E94\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"206\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/VerifyyourWindowsTimeservice_13E94\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"644\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> I trust Microsoft that they are well maintaining their time infrastructure, but still I performed two additional checks to nist.gov servers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>w32tm \/stripchart \/computer:time.nist.gov \/samples:5 \/dataonly<\/li>\n<li>w32tm \/stripchart \/computer:time-b.nist.gov \/samples:5 \/dataonly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I am manually configuring the Windows Time Service to synchronize my local time with the NTP peer at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>w32tm \/config \/manualpeerlist:time.windows.com \/syncfromflags:manual \/reliable:yes \/update<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/VerifyyourWindowsTimeservice_13E94\/image_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"162\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/VerifyyourWindowsTimeservice_13E94\/image_thumb_3.png\" width=\"644\" border=\"0\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Three new events are generated in Windows Vista <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The time service is now synchronizing the system time with the time source time.windows.com (ntp.m|0x0|0.0.0.0:123-&gt;207.46.232.182:123). <\/p>\n<p>The system time has changed to 3\/7\/2008 9:51:02 PM from 3\/7\/2008 9:51:13 PM. (My 11s ;-)) <\/p>\n<p>The system time has changed to 3\/7\/2008 9:51:02 PM from 3\/7\/2008 9:51:02 PM.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/VerifyyourWindowsTimeservice_13E94\/image_4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"206\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/VerifyyourWindowsTimeservice_13E94\/image_thumb_4.png\" width=\"644\" border=\"0\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Final stripchart check and yes offset is 00.xxxx. Please consider these steps on your Active Directory PDC domain controller and their time source for your domain. For more information go to this <a href=\"http:\/\/technet2.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/en\/library\/ac86e77c-0be3-430a-ba0b-c2225506fc4f1033.mspx?mfr=true\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 their time infrastructure, but still I performed two additional checks to nist.gov servers. w32tm \/stripchart \/computer:time.nist.gov \/samples:5 \/dataonly w32tm \/stripchart \/computer:time-b.nist.gov \/samples:5 \/dataonly Now I am manually configuring the Windows Time Service to synchronize my local time with the NTP peer at Microsoft. w32tm \/config \/manualpeerlist:time.windows.com \/syncfromflags:manual \/reliable:yes \/update Three new events are generated in Windows Vista The time service is now synchronizing the system time with the time source time.windows.com (ntp.m|0x0|0.0.0.0:123-&gt;207.46.232.182:123). The system time has changed to 3\/7\/2008 9:51:02 PM from 3\/7\/2008 9:51:13 PM. (My 11s ;-)) The system time has changed to 3\/7\/2008 9:51:02 PM from 3\/7\/2008 9:51:02 PM. Final stripchart check and yes offset is 00.xxxx. Please consider these steps on your Active Directory PDC domain controller and their time source for your domain. For more information go to this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[147,229,228,208,226,230,227,782],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-howto","tag-ntp","tag-pdc","tag-service","tag-time","tag-verify","tag-w32tm","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}