This drove me nuts! Why Microsoft had to take something totally simple in Windows 2000 and make it a complicated thing is NOT beyond me! This is MS we’re talking about! Of course it’s not easy with newer versions.
Took me a little bit, but here’s the commands I used on our primary domain controller, and it’s working great. that first w32tm command is all one line.
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:”0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org pool.ntp.org”,0x8 /syncfromflags:MANUAL /reliable:yes
w32tm /config /update
net stop w32time
net start w32time
w32tm /resync /rediscover
That should do it. However, always make sure you firewall is open to port 123 outbound! I initially was receiving this error after running a “w32tm /resync” :
The computer did not resync because no time data was available.
In my case, that was caused by my firewall blocking port 123 for NTP traffic. Go figure, we’ve been running this particular network for probably 2 years with that firewall blocking port 123, and only now did someone come and ask “why is our computer time off by 6 or 7 minutes?” This is when you say, “Welcome to the world, can I help you?” (Good old Beavis) Well, at least we got our server configured better as a “reliable” time source with the right ntp.org pools.