Friday, April 13, 2012

Configure Time Source on PDC Emulator

We recently had an issue with our time source and it caused us a bit a of a head ache.  It turns out that our time source was a router that lost its time and therefore affected the our DCs.  I issued the following command on on the DC holding the PDC Emulator Role and it immediately  solved our issue.  . 

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:time.windows.com /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update

the m anualpeerlist is where multiple sources are specified but I only included the time.windows.com source and it worked.

Configure The Time Source for the Forest