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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 22 Jan 2010 07:33
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> Whats the easiest way to sync the time?
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For Active Directory, the easiest way is in the general case is quite
likely going to be to go with what's supplied out of the box. As I
wrote in the messages that you replied to, one manually configures the
machine at the top of the Windows Time Service hierarchy, and everything
else "just works". That's the intention of the design. But as M. Silva
has pointed out, there are going to be many situations where this
doesn't happen, not least because not every domain is set up and
maintained perfectly ab initio. It's not difficult to undermine the
bases upon which "just works" just works, through error and otherwise.
And as has also been pointed out, the Windows Time Service design is
sometimes not what one wants. (One prior thread in MPWSA, for example,
was started by someone who apparently didn't want the three minute
threshold that the WTS implements and who wanted all adjustments to be
incremental. Another prior thread was started by someone who wanted the
opposite, and wanted no incremental adjustments. Knowing the constraints
and design choices of the WTS design is important.)

Sometimes the easiest way, for AD, is not the right way nor the desired
way. In this thread, the point is that it's most certainly not the only
and the mandatory way, as has unfortunately become received wisdom in
some places.

> What are you doing outside of a OS2 group?? :)
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Talking about a subject that isn't OS/2, of course. Welcome to
comp.protocols.time.ntp, where the topic is NTP. (-:

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