Windows Time Stops Even When Set to Start Automatically
Mark Berry September 20, 2010
I’m running Windows Server 2008 R2 as a Hyper-V host. The domain controller runs as a guest. Following Microsoft’s recommendation, the host is not joined to the domain; it is a stand-alone workgroup client.
Even if you set Windows Time service to Automatic start, it stops within a few seconds. Why? How do you set up Windows Time to behave like it would on a domain client?
More...W32Time Errors in a Hyper-V Virtual Environment
Mark Berry August 27, 2010
I am running Small Business Server 2008 SP2 under Hyper-V. On a Server 2003 member server, also running under Hyper-V, I was getting frequent W32Time warnings errors in the System event log (Event IDs 38, 24, and 29 in that order).
More...Hotfix Lets W32time Sync with Very High Precision NTP Servers
Mark Berry November 2, 2007
Time Server Upgrades Expose W32Time Bug
Some time ago, I set up two NTP time sources for my Windows 2003 / SBS 2003 domain controllers: time-nw.nist.gov in Redmond, Washington, and time-a.nist.gov in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
I noticed that the machines don’t ever seem to sync with time-nw.nist.gov. I keep getting W32Time errors:
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