I have a parent-child domain structure (Win 2008 R2). I am in the process of demoting and retiring DCs, as we upgrade the domain to Win2012 R2. And my time settings seem to be kind of funky (we had some time issues in the past, and my boss "tinkered" with the settings ..)
Here's where I am now: Parent domain PDCe is now a Win2012 R2 DC. This DC is set to get it's time from pool.ntp.org (w32tm /config /manualpeerlist: peers /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update - where the peers are "0.us.pool.ntp.org 1.us.pool.ntp.org" etc) So that should be OK, I think. But: the other DCs in the parent domain - "w32tm /query /configuration" is showing me "[Time Providers]" as "Type: NT5DS". That's "domain hierarchy", and is the default (I believe). But here's the problem: w32tm /query /status is showing me a "Source" of previous PDCe. And I am about to demote and retire that old PDCe. So I am not sure why it is showing this (the child domain DCs show the same "Source"). And how do I fix this? Shouldn't the source be the (current) PDCe? My boss thinks that he may have set a registry entry on the old PDCe that told it to advertise itself as a "master time server". I am having a hard time finding out what registry setting he is referring to (and if he is right about that). Anyone have any ideas?
