Domain Controller Keeps Losing Time

If your domain controller is hosting the dhcp service simply turn off the dhcp server on the router.

Domain controller keeps losing time. Time is a crucial security control to protect against certain attacks e g replay attacks in the kerberos authentication protocol. We are running a windows server 2008 as domain controller and all client pc s by default synchronize with the domain time but for some reason the domain time keeps changing on the server almost everyday. If your domain controller is not hosting dhcp i would recommend installing the built in dhcp server because this very tightly integrates with active.

We have also tried modifying the ntp conf file to change the time source to version 3 followed by a service restart of ntp but none of this seems to change problem. We looked at the event viewers logs but nothing shows up in there. Wed may 09 2007 12 43 am.

If somebody changes those settings though all bets are off. For domain joined computers they will pull the time from the domain controllers by default. Posted on august 2 2018 october 6 2020 author coltrinit categories active directory misc server 2008 r2 server 2012 windows 10 windows 7.

Next time the computers send a dhcp request the domain controller will respond accordingly. Ars tribunus militum registered. Domain controller sync time keeps changing back 13 posts flea2k.

We do not know the cause of it.