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)

How do you teach people how to leverage technology for their businesses?

Ok, I've been sitting here with a three page document about blogging that I wrote to give to my customers, and I realized that none of my customers will actually read it.

Don't get me wrong, I have some very smart customers that have some of the most successful businesses in Gwinnett County, but they really aren't that interested in anything technology related. Now that I think about it, that's probably why they hired me...

The problem is that I have so many ideas that I want to get across to them about how this can help their businesses that I can't help overwhelming them. I've always been good about explaining very technical things to non technical people, but how in the world do you translate the very things that will help them catalyst their businesses easily without sounding condescending? I'm sure I'll figure it out with the help of my friends and my business coach, but any ideas would be greatly appreciated!