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From: RJeremy on 7 May 2010 10:34
On quite a few of our Vista domain machines we are noticing that at a certain
random point, time on the taskbar just stops. I can only assume that its
something on our SBS2008 server as it is happening on multiple machines. How
can I get this fixed?
From: Dave Nickason [SBS MVP] on 7 May 2010 16:40
Am I understanding you correctly that the clock on the Vista taskbar just
stops at a certain time? So for example it keeps good time until 3:14 and
then just stays at 3:14? If that's the case, I'd be surprised if it's
related to the SBS.

Open a cmd prompt on a machine where the time is stopped. Type "net time
\\machinename" without the quotes and where machinename is the name of the
Vista PC. Does the resulting time match the stopped time on the tray clock,
or is it the correct time? Now in the same cmd window type "net time \\sbs"
where sbs is the name of your SBS. Does the result indicate that the time
is correct on the SBS?

When this happens to multiple Vista PCs, is it always at the same time, or
is it random across all the effected machines? When a machine exhibits
this, is it otherwise responsive? Can you look in Task Manager and see if
there are free resources? I've seen 100% CPU situations where the clock
display would stop changing until the CPU usage drops - could you be seeing
something like that?

Any scheduled tasks, backup, etc. running when this happens? Anything in
the system or application logs on the Vistas or the SBS? Is there any user
action that seems to trigger it? Anything installed, changed, or updated
prior to this starting?

One comment: if the tray clock display is stopped at a particular time, but
the net time command indicates the correct time (on the local PC, not the
SBS), IMO that pretty conclusively rules out the SBS as the source. I would
be surprised if the SBS were involved regardless - time sync doesn't happen
that often, so even if the SBS somehow continuously reported the same time
for a long period, that would not cause the workstations' time to stop
changing. The workstation would sync to the (incorrect) time on the SBS,
but then it would continue to keep time until its next sync. Also, if the
Vista PCs' clocks actually stopped (as opposed to just displaying
incorrectly), you'd lose the ability to log into the domain due to the time
discrepancy between the workstations and the server.


"RJeremy" <RJeremy(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4F09A643-39E8-40D0-AEAB-F61C8A935145(a)microsoft.com...
> On quite a few of our Vista domain machines we are noticing that at a
> certain
> random point, time on the taskbar just stops. I can only assume that its
> something on our SBS2008 server as it is happening on multiple machines.
> How
> can I get this fixed?

From: kj [SBS MVP] on 7 May 2010 18:38
"Stops" would be bad in a very short period of time. Does it stay stopped
indefinitely, or just briefly and then pick back up?

Dave Nickason [SBS MVP] wrote:
> Am I understanding you correctly that the clock on the Vista taskbar
> just stops at a certain time? So for example it keeps good time
> until 3:14 and then just stays at 3:14? If that's the case, I'd be
> surprised if it's related to the SBS.
>
> Open a cmd prompt on a machine where the time is stopped. Type "net
> time \\machinename" without the quotes and where machinename is the
> name of the Vista PC. Does the resulting time match the stopped time
> on the tray clock, or is it the correct time? Now in the same cmd
> window type "net time \\sbs" where sbs is the name of your SBS. Does
> the result indicate that the time is correct on the SBS?
>
> When this happens to multiple Vista PCs, is it always at the same
> time, or is it random across all the effected machines? When a
> machine exhibits this, is it otherwise responsive? Can you look in
> Task Manager and see if there are free resources? I've seen 100% CPU
> situations where the clock display would stop changing until the CPU
> usage drops - could you be seeing something like that?
>
> Any scheduled tasks, backup, etc. running when this happens? Anything in
> the system or application logs on the Vistas or the SBS? Is there any user
> action that seems to trigger it? Anything
> installed, changed, or updated prior to this starting?
>
> One comment: if the tray clock display is stopped at a particular
> time, but the net time command indicates the correct time (on the
> local PC, not the SBS), IMO that pretty conclusively rules out the
> SBS as the source. I would be surprised if the SBS were involved
> regardless - time sync doesn't happen that often, so even if the SBS
> somehow continuously reported the same time for a long period, that
> would not cause the workstations' time to stop changing. The
> workstation would sync to the (incorrect) time on the SBS, but then
> it would continue to keep time until its next sync. Also, if the
> Vista PCs' clocks actually stopped (as opposed to just displaying
> incorrectly), you'd lose the ability to log into the domain due to
> the time discrepancy between the workstations and the server.
>
> "RJeremy" <RJeremy(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4F09A643-39E8-40D0-AEAB-F61C8A935145(a)microsoft.com...
>> On quite a few of our Vista domain machines we are noticing that at a
>> certain
>> random point, time on the taskbar just stops. I can only assume that
>> its something on our SBS2008 server as it is happening on multiple
>> machines. How
>> can I get this fixed?

--
/kj


From: Russ SBITS.Biz [SBS-MVP] on 8 May 2010 13:26
In addition
Does time stop on the server also?
is there anything being scheduled at this time?
Like a virus scan etc?

Russ

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"kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ.SBS(a)SPAMFREE.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ewJz$Xj7KHA.5936(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> "Stops" would be bad in a very short period of time. Does it stay stopped
> indefinitely, or just briefly and then pick back up?
>
> Dave Nickason [SBS MVP] wrote:
>> Am I understanding you correctly that the clock on the Vista taskbar
>> just stops at a certain time? So for example it keeps good time
>> until 3:14 and then just stays at 3:14? If that's the case, I'd be
>> surprised if it's related to the SBS.
>>
>> Open a cmd prompt on a machine where the time is stopped. Type "net
>> time \\machinename" without the quotes and where machinename is the
>> name of the Vista PC. Does the resulting time match the stopped time
>> on the tray clock, or is it the correct time? Now in the same cmd
>> window type "net time \\sbs" where sbs is the name of your SBS. Does
>> the result indicate that the time is correct on the SBS?
>>
>> When this happens to multiple Vista PCs, is it always at the same
>> time, or is it random across all the effected machines? When a
>> machine exhibits this, is it otherwise responsive? Can you look in
>> Task Manager and see if there are free resources? I've seen 100% CPU
>> situations where the clock display would stop changing until the CPU
>> usage drops - could you be seeing something like that?
>>
>> Any scheduled tasks, backup, etc. running when this happens? Anything in
>> the system or application logs on the Vistas or the SBS? Is there any
>> user action that seems to trigger it? Anything
>> installed, changed, or updated prior to this starting?
>>
>> One comment: if the tray clock display is stopped at a particular
>> time, but the net time command indicates the correct time (on the
>> local PC, not the SBS), IMO that pretty conclusively rules out the
>> SBS as the source. I would be surprised if the SBS were involved
>> regardless - time sync doesn't happen that often, so even if the SBS
>> somehow continuously reported the same time for a long period, that
>> would not cause the workstations' time to stop changing. The
>> workstation would sync to the (incorrect) time on the SBS, but then
>> it would continue to keep time until its next sync. Also, if the
>> Vista PCs' clocks actually stopped (as opposed to just displaying
>> incorrectly), you'd lose the ability to log into the domain due to
>> the time discrepancy between the workstations and the server.
>>
>> "RJeremy" <RJeremy(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:4F09A643-39E8-40D0-AEAB-F61C8A935145(a)microsoft.com...
>>> On quite a few of our Vista domain machines we are noticing that at a
>>> certain
>>> random point, time on the taskbar just stops. I can only assume that
>>> its something on our SBS2008 server as it is happening on multiple
>>> machines. How
>>> can I get this fixed?
>
> --
> /kj
>
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