Windows Time Service

The official blog site for the Windows Time Service

If you are synchronizing time from national NTP servers or servers that derive their time from...

Date: 04/06/2019

We have published a new document which contains more details about our testing and measurement...

Date: 12/16/2016

We’ve posted a short video on Channel9 which provides a high-level discussion of the improvements to...

Date: 10/04/2016

In 2017, governments are requiring stricter time accuracy with regards to UTC for financial...

Date: 09/30/2016

What year is it?...

Date: 09/28/2016

How the time flies. With over 2 years since the last post, it is high time we get this blog moving...

Date: 11/16/2011

It seems there is a bit of ambiguity out there regarding the relationship between w32time and the...

Date: 08/07/2009

In an effort to alleviate confusion around the Windows Time Service group policy settings, here is a...

Date: 02/02/2009

The settings for the Windows Time Service exposed through group policy have long been seen as a bit...

Date: 01/30/2009

Brian Singleton has posted on article on configuring w32time via Group Policy using WMI on the AskDS...

Date: 12/05/2008

For those out there who haven't yet heard, VMWare is experiencing a problem (as of Aug 12) with...

Date: 08/12/2008

(.. .and limited default time sync accuracy in AD Forests with Server2016+ servers...) More than any...

Date: 06/10/2008

Of the many things that w32time does, figuring out which host to sync from is one of the most...

Date: 05/30/2008

Recently, I had a customer ask if they can use w32time as a time source for other computer &...

Date: 04/02/2008

In the last few months of the Windows Server 2008 development, a good friend of mine was discussing...

Date: 02/28/2008

The debug log is a powerful tool in the W32Time bag of tricks when you need to figure out why...

Date: 02/28/2008

One of the most talked about configuration options for W32Time has to be the list of time sources...

Date: 02/26/2008

In the very first post, I tried (for better or worse) to summarize the purpose of the Windows Time...

Date: 10/31/2007

Windows Time Service on a domain (referred to as 'Domain Synchronization' or 'Domain Sync' for...

Date: 09/04/2007

It sounds a bit egotistical, but in fact, it is quite correct. I was recently reading an interesting...

Date: 08/09/2007

Welcome to the Windows Time Service blog. This blog is here to answer some of the questions about...

Date: 07/07/2007