Windows: The Windows Time Service

Overview The time service is a critical part of any Windows Active Directory infrastructure.  Why?  Because it is part of how Active Directory replicates correctly, because it supports the implementation of Kerberos and because all your networked computers will be synchronised using it, even if you don't configure it. Quite often, a seemingly unrelated error message will be caused by time service configuration errors.  I've written small guidance notes quite often to help administrators sort out these problems, but I wanted to collect my knowledge into a single blog post so that it is availa... [More]