Forcing a Time Sync to your Domain Controllers.
Last week immediately following the time shift for “daylight savings” we noticed our Primary Domain Controler (PDC) and our Backup Domain Controler (BDC) had a time difference of greater than 30 mins. This was not caused by the time shift, but something we discovered while checking to see if our infrastructure had updated the time properly.
Below is a method to resync them.
Check the system date and time on every DC to find the wrong one. Use net time to synchronize time between DCsb then run gpupdate and everything will be alright.
Open a command prompt window and type in:
net time /setsntp:us.pool.ntp.org
You can replace us.pool.ntp.org with what ever NTP server you wish to use.
0.pool.ntp.org
1.pool.ntp.org
are just a couple other examples.
Once finnished, type gpupdate and you should be good to go.
DO NOT FORGET: Check your bios time/date/timezone. It may be affecting it.
