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by bill.herde

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I am running a multi-site windows network with 2K and 2K3 servers. All are in a single domain with subnets connected via hardware VPN. We just opened another site in a different time zone. Whenever remote server is rebooted, and again at intervals through the day, the time setting on the server changes from central to pacific time. The fsmo server (and all the other servers) are on pacific time. Where/how do I tell this server to work in a different time zone but still play in the same domain?

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by curlergirl

PS I guess NIST actually recommends using the server's IP addy rather than the name; not sure why, but I just thought I'd mention it since I referred to the computer's name in my answer.

by a_liss

Did you setup the server in your main office and then ship it to the new location if so you may have forgotten to set the region to central time also make sure you have the use daylight savings time set correctly. Log in as admin double click the clock in the lower right corner and set the new server to central time. It will sync itself with the west coast servers and correct for time zones. Oh by the way Microsoft has all windows systems set to west coast time by default. So its easy to miss when setting up.

by bill.herde

Thanks for the input. The issue was actually 3 fold. The region setting would drop back to PST periodically, and the net time /setsntp took care of that. There was still an issue with the workstations getting the correct time, which later blossomed into a general inability for users to authenticate to the home servers. Cause? One of the home servers had a failed DNS service, this caused AD replication to stop for servers looking to it for DNS. Thus workstations and servers had different sets of credetials and updating the time was not authorized for users on workstations.

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