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I recently upgraded from a windows 2000 to a 2003 one forest one domain, domain and have 8 sites. Four US sites and four overseas sites. I found out by accident that if I do a net time command from a client at any site it returns the time from our Bangkok (non PDC emulator) domain controller. If the Bangkok domain controller is unavailable it hits the next domain controller in alphabetical order. I have the PDC emulator pointed to two internal time sync appliances on our network by ip address separated by a space. After replacing a leased domain controller, I noticed the default installation of a domain controller creates a registry setting for the ntpserver under w32time\parameters for time.windows.com. Isn't this going outside the domain for the time? Has anyone had this issue and if so what should the registry settings be for the other domain controllers on the domain? Will that take care of the net time issue? I haven't noticed any issues on the domain, but assume that I will at some point if I don't get the net time command to return time from a domain controller in the same site as the client.
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