The other day, I saw this really cool blog posting by the Directory Servers team titled:
Configuring an Authoritative Time Server with Group Policy Using WMI Filtering. Basically, in our every ending quest to ensure time is sync'ed the posting show how to use WMI Filtering to force certain GPO settings upon the PDC emulator. :>)
So... to sum how one might do employ what is talked about in this posting from end-to-end. Here are the steps:
Bam... you now have to never worry about moving your PDC emulator role around without having to re-configure NTP. Hopefully this is helpful.
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With more than ten years of experience in IT, Tyson Kopczynski has become a specialist in Active Directory, Information Assurance, Windows automation, PKI, and IT security practices. Tyson is also the founding author of the Windows PowerShell Unleashed series and has been a contributing author for such books as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Unleashed and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Unleashed. He has also written many detailed technical papers and guides covering various technologies. As a consultant at Convergent Computing, Tyson works with and provides feedback for next generation Microsoft technologies since their inception and has also played a key role in expanding the automation and security practices at CCO. Tyson also holds such certifications as the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), the SANS Security Essentials Certification (GSEC) and SANS Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), and the MCTS (Application Platform, Active Directory, and Network Infrastructure).
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