W32Time

Best Practice for the Windows Time (W32TIME) Service for RDSH and VDI workloads

May 16, 2019

When using image deployment mechanisms for RDSH and VDI workloads, such as Citrix PVS, Citrix MCS and VMware View Composer, it’s extremely important to reconfigure the Windows Time (w32time) Service to ensure that the LastBootUpTime is accurate. If it’s not accurate, it effects monitoring, the correlation of log data, event triggers, etc. The default Manual […]

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Script to Create Group Policy Objects and WMI Filters to Manage the Time Server Hierarchy

January 10, 2014

This PowerShell script will create the Time Server GPOs and WMI Filters for the Domain Controllers to ensure your time server hierarchy remains correct for transfer and seizure of the PDC emulator FSMO role holder. However, before I talk about the script it’s important to provide some background information on the required settings for the Windows Time […]

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