[isalist] Re: Windows Time?

  • From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:51:48 -0700

Yeah, except my DC¹s can¹t resolve external addresses, nor do I allow DC¹s
to make any direct outbound connections ;)

t


On 5/30/06 12:34 PM, "Steve Moffat" <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> spoketh to all:

> Easy way out, set up a rule to allow NTP out from your PDC emulator, then run
> net time /setsntp:time-a.nist.gov on the pdc emulator. Everything else will
> synchronise from the server.
>  
> Works every time.
>  
> Steve
>  
> 
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Ball, Dan
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:27 PM
> To: ISA Mailing List
> Subject: [isalist] Re: Windows Time?
>  
> I¹m pretty sure I tried that, along with every other solution from the MS
> Knowledge Base, MSDN, and Google I could find.  In any case, I¹ve spent way
> too many hours on it already and have a work-around, so I don¹t think I¹ll
> pursue it further.
>  
> 
> 
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Thor (Hammer of God)
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 2:38 PM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] Re: Windows Time?
>  
> The way I do this is to add my time servers to the ³to² list on the NTP system
> policy of a ³chosen² ISA box, and to have that box set to update NTP to those
> servers.  I use the Navy boxes in DC and FL as my corp office is on the East
> Coast. 
> 
> Then, I point my operations master DC to the ISA box, and have all the other
> DC¹s point to that DC.  Internal resources automatically sync time to the
> DC¹s, so this keep the entire infrastructure perfectly timed.
> 
> t
> 
> 
> On 5/30/06 10:46 AM, "Ball, Dan" <DBall@xxxxxxxxxxx> spoketh to all:
> I spent many hours on this same problem here.  Couldn¹t figure out how to get
> it to find the Internet time servers?  I eventually installed a third-party
> program to do the time synchronization on the PDC, and that has worked for the
> most part.  Didn¹t actually ³fix² the problem, just found a work-around.
>  
> As for the ISA part, it didn¹t seem to be even attempting to pass through the
> ISA server, it was all on the server-end.
>  
> 
> 
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> <mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx%5d> On Behalf Of Troy Radtke
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:25 PM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] Re: Windows Time?
> 
> Make sure you have debugged any w32tm errors on the system.  90% of everything
> you need to know is right there from the command shell; all but a few nuggets
> of info if you are making a server a precise time source for a domain
> regardless of being able to synch to an external time source itself.
> Something I've seen a lot with stand alone networks.  All of it is out there
> in some really nice white papers on TechNet about w32tm.
> 
> 
> 
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> <mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx%5d> On Behalf Of Andrew English
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:19 PM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [isalist] Re: Windows Time?
> 
> I get constant error messages in the server logs that Windows 2003 Server is
> unable to contact the time.windows.com server (have tried it as
> time.windows.com and in IP form) but after a few tries it reports it was able
> to make contact. I don't know if it's an ISA thing or if the windows.com
> server is buggy?
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jim Harrison
> Sent: Tue 30/05/2006 12:03 PM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] Re: Windows Time?
> 
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>  
> What's the problem, Andy?
> This question has no actual point to it...
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> <mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx%5d> On Behalf Of Andrew English
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 09:10
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] Re: Windows Time?
> 
> Is there a better way to setup Windows Time instead of having to use a rule to
> open port 123 to the AD machine?
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew
> 
> 
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