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In an effort to alleviate confusion around the Windows Time Service group policy settings, here is a detailed explaination of the various settings, what their respective purposes are, and a small bit about how to configure them. Keep in mind that Windows
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Recently, I had a customer ask if they can use w32time as a time source for other computer & devices on their network. The Windows Time Service is fully capable of acting as a time source for anything that is NTPv3 compliant. Before we start firing
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In the last few months of the Windows Server 2008 development, a good friend of mine was discussing a problem they have been seeing with customers. The problem, lovingly titled as the "Large Time Jump" issue involves a machine in the domain (usually the
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The debug log is a powerful tool in the W32Time bag of tricks when you need to figure out why something isn't working. The debug log tell you (for better or worse) what the Time Service is doing under the hood. Where it is connecting to, how long it is
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One of the most talked about configuration options for W32Time has to be the list of time sources that W32Time connects to for synchronization. It is important to note that W32Time will only actively synchronize with one time source at a time, even though
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Welcome to the Windows Time Service blog. This blog is here to answer some of the questions about the service and show off some of the useful features that it has. Every week, I will try to cover a new topic surrounding Windows Time Service (w32time for
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