disturbedone
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Never really sure if this sort of post should go in W2K8 or W7 forums. I'll try here as it's more about GPOs than the client itself.
I'm migrating from XP to W7. A GPO existed that applied an NTP time source to XP clients. The same policy is being applied to W7 clients. This policy is in Computer Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates/System/Windows Time/Time Providers and has the following settings:
Configure Windows NTP Client: Enabled
* NTP Server: ntp.domain.local
* Type: NTP
Enabled Windows NTP Client: Enabled
In W7 if I edit the time and go to the 'Internet Time' tab it says "This computer is not set to automatically synchronize with an Internet time server" however if I run w32tm /query it says:
Stratum: 4 (secondary reference - synced by (S)NTP)
ReferenceId: 0x0A0B0007 (source IP: 10.11.0.7)
Source: ntp.domain.local
So it looks like the GPO is actually applying correctly.
If I edit the time settings in XP it also doesn't have the 'Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server' setting enabled. Running net time /querysntp says it's getting it from time.windows.com which makes it look like the GPO isn't applying to that XP machine. I'm not worried the XP but the W7 appears to have the correct settings even though the option in 'Change date/time' doesn't specify it.
Can anyone confirm if this is ok?
I'm migrating from XP to W7. A GPO existed that applied an NTP time source to XP clients. The same policy is being applied to W7 clients. This policy is in Computer Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates/System/Windows Time/Time Providers and has the following settings:
Configure Windows NTP Client: Enabled
* NTP Server: ntp.domain.local
* Type: NTP
Enabled Windows NTP Client: Enabled
In W7 if I edit the time and go to the 'Internet Time' tab it says "This computer is not set to automatically synchronize with an Internet time server" however if I run w32tm /query it says:
Stratum: 4 (secondary reference - synced by (S)NTP)
ReferenceId: 0x0A0B0007 (source IP: 10.11.0.7)
Source: ntp.domain.local
So it looks like the GPO is actually applying correctly.
If I edit the time settings in XP it also doesn't have the 'Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server' setting enabled. Running net time /querysntp says it's getting it from time.windows.com which makes it look like the GPO isn't applying to that XP machine. I'm not worried the XP but the W7 appears to have the correct settings even though the option in 'Change date/time' doesn't specify it.
Can anyone confirm if this is ok?
