Setting Up SBS to Sync w/ External Time Source

On many of our SBS Servers we managed, we are getting various 29 errors in the log associated with time sync... It's important that we should configure the SBS 2003 server to send out time sync requests in Client Mode. To set the PDC to request it's time in client mode, please open a command prompt and run the following 4 commands:

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:time.nist.gov,0x8 /syncfromflags:MANUAL
net stop w32time
net start w32time
w32tm /resync

Here we should use the "0x8" flag which sets the SBS server in Client Mode. These are the valid settings:

0x01 use special poll interval SpecialInterval
0x02 UseAsFallbackOnly
0x04 send request as SymmatricActive mode
0x08 send request as Client mode

To make sure that the clients are time syncing with the server, issue these 2 commands from the command prompt once:

net time /setsntp:servername

w32tm /resync (for XP)

w32tm -once -v (for W2k)