Use the script from Jeremy Saunders to automate this for you. http://www.jhouseconsulting.com/2014/01/10/script-to-create-group-policy-objects-and-wmi-filters-to-manage-the-time-server-hierarchy-1153
Webster -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mayo, Bill Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 12:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] PDCe and "Authoritative" Time I am working on replacing our last 2008 domain controller and am having to look at time synchronization for the first time in a while. I am trying to go from manually configuring the PDCe to using group policy to set the external time source (as described in https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/nepapfe/2013/03/01/its-simple-time-configuration-in-active-directory/ (Using GPO with WMI filter section)). The manual process indicates to use the "reliable:yes" parameter, and I have always seen that. I am not seeing a way to do that through group policy. I also am not having much luck finding information on the necessity of this parameter for proper operation. Is there a way to do this through policy? If not, is this totally necessary? It does seem that if the GPO doesn't take care of all aspects, it is probably not a good total solution. Bill Mayo Pitt County MIS
