Monday, August 3, 2015

Encouraging domain controller to advertise time

param(
[parameter(mandatory=$true)]$computer
)

$sb = {
set-itemproperty -path `
     HKLM:\system\currentcontrolset\services\w32time\timeproviders\ntpserver `
    -name "Enabled" -value "1"
restart-service w32time
w32tm /resync
}
invoke-command -script $sb -computer $computer




2023 - Update to this article. It is possible for a server to have a value of 1 on the Enabled dword
for ntserver and the server still reports that it is not advertising. There is a group policy setting
that can prevent the machine from acting as an NTP server which will block the service from working and won't
present anything obvious in the registry.

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