How to find the time server in a domain or workgroup

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Clients windows like Windows Xp, windows 7 attempts to synchronize with a time source server and how it locates that server. Here you can see the how you can determined the your computer time source or server within Domain or in a workgroup

KEYWORD - active directory - How to find time server in a domain?
Find my time server.
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Determine my time server ( sync issue )

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SOLUTIONS

To check the current time source or server from which your computer is updating the time, You can determined by run below command.

• For run this command you need to Open command prompt as a administrator if you are not


• How to run a command as administrator, See this below Article - http://networkingstudy.net/forums/index.php/topic,903.0.html



• For Windows XP / Server 2003 type this command - Net time /QUERYSNTP


• For Windows 7 / Server 2008 or Higher type this command - w32tm /query /source

For view the complete configuration of Time service on your computer Run the below command as a administrator

Code Select Expand

w32tm /query /configuration
Note - This command runs only on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 or higher version of windows

You can also see the same on registry, Follow the path - [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time]

For Complete Article on Time server in a Domain environment see this below link - This is only for IT Administrator or System Administrator On Active Directory
http://networkingstudy.net/forums/index.php?topic=894.0.html