DST 2007>Do we need to change anything if use an NTP server to syn

[Guest]

Do we need to apply of the Daylight Savings Time 2007 changes to our Win2k
Advance servers (Only Domian controllers we have) & our XP & Win2kPro
clients; if we use an NTP server to sync all servers & pc's?
If there is nothing we have to do, then you don't need to read further.


I read kb 914387 & created the three files TZupdate.reg, refreshTZinfo.vbs,
and DST2007Update_Win2k.com
I then created a test group policy to apply these.
The group policy works, but EVERY time I reboot my test pc; these new logon
scripts run. Every time it takes at least 5 minutes for this to run. The
users won't wait, they'll power down the pc's during the process; since its
every reboot. If I have to go this route, is there anyway to run these new
scripts just once per pc?

Or do you reccomend another way to push this out to our Win2k Advanced
server, WinXP Pro, & Win2k Pro clients?

Thank you.
Jason Lehman

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

The DST change is all about what is displayed. You need to patch any
machine that you care that the time is displayed properly on as well as
any application servers that depend on localtime being correct.

Computers under the covers use UTC which doesn't use DST.

If you put this in a startup/logon script in a GPO, then you would do
well to set up the script to set some marker on the machine that it has
been updated so it will be skipped after that. There is no way to
automatically do some runonce functionality within GPOs.

--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


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[Guest]

Joe, I think I understand what you mean about setting a marker. Do you have
an example of how I could do that?
Thanks for your help.
Jason

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

Lots of ways of implementing this, I have seen registry entries, files
on the machine in question, DB entries on a DB server somewhere,
updating attributes on the computer account, etc.

--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


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[Guest]

I am trying to write a .bat file that will check if a dst2007.txt file is on
the local pc, if not, then the update runs & then copies the dst2007.txt file
to the local pc; so next time the update won't run. If the dst2007.txt file
is found, then the script ends before applying the update. I am not a strong
script writer, can anyone post some syntax examples of what I am trying to
do. Thank you.

Jason

 

[Guest]

@echo off
if exist c:\dst2007.txt goto end
regedit /s \\server\NETLOGON\TZupdate.reg
cscript \\SERVER\NETLOGON\refreshTZinfo.vbs
copy \\server\NETLOGON\dst2007.txt c:\dst2007.txt
:end

 

[Guest]

Thank you.
Jason

@echo off
if exist c:\dst2007.txt goto end
regedit /s \\server\NETLOGON\TZupdate.reg
cscript \\SERVER\NETLOGON\refreshTZinfo.vbs
copy \\server\NETLOGON\dst2007.txt c:\dst2007.txt
:end