Windows 2000 forest time synch

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I have a forest with 10 DC's, some of them are in other time zones (other states), and they always synchronize with the firts DC in the Forest. Does any one knows how can I disable this option in the DC's that have time difference so they can use his own time?
 
I have a forest with 10 DC's, some of them are in other time zones (other states), and they always synchronize with the firts DC in the Forest. Does any one knows how can I disable this option in the DC's that have time difference so they can use his own time?
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Internally Windows uses UTC (Universal Time Coordinated), time zone
offset is applied just for visualization purposes so you shouldn't have
any problem with that. Is there any specific issue you are experiencing?
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I have a forest with 10 DC's, some of them are in other time zones (other states), and they always synchronize with the firts DC in the Forest. Does any one knows how can I disable this option in the DC's that have time difference so they can use his own time
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Internally Windows uses UTC (Universal Time Coordinated), time zone
offset is applied just for visualization purposes so you shouldn't have
any problem with that. Is there any specific issue you are experiencing
--
Cheers
Marin Marino
MCT, MCSE 2003/2000/NT4.0
MCSE:Security 2003/2000, MCP+

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Yes, when I change the time in one of my DC's that use other time (because of the time difference between cities) afer 30 or 40 minutes the server changes the time to the time in the first DC.
 
You can controll what server that replicates with witch trough site and
service.
When you create a site link you can configurate when that link is avabile.



Joe C said:
I have a forest with 10 DC's, some of them are in other time zones (other
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states), and they always synchronize with the firts DC in the Forest. Does
any one knows how can I disable this option in the DC's that have time
difference so they can use his own time?
 
anders.bengtsson2 said:
You can controll what server that replicates with witch trough site and
service.
When you create a site link you can configurate when that link is avabile.
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I disagree, probably you misread the question, Anders. The Windows Time
service uses the NTP protocol and the time synchronization hierarchy is
not concenrned about site links. W32time can be controlled via the
registry. All DC sync against the first DC in the forest root domain -
it's considered a stratum 2 server. The most reliable, stratum 1, would
be one of the publicly availabe servers, like time.windows.com.

"Basic Operation of the Windows Time Service":
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=224799

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Cheers,
Marin Marinov
MCT, MCSE 2003/2000/NT4.0,
MCSE:Security 2003/2000, MCP+I
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I would say you should check your TZ settings on those DCs then. Something isn't
configured properly. I have run DCs in nearly every timezone across the world
and never had to disable the time sync capability.

joe
 
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