From the course: Windows 10 for IT Support: Advanced Troubleshooting
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Solving time sync issues - Windows Tutorial
From the course: Windows 10 for IT Support: Advanced Troubleshooting
Solving time sync issues
- [Instructor] You may have noticed on your Windows 10 PCs that sometimes the clocks tend to drift a little bit. Now this might not necessarily be a problem for you, but if the PC is connected to an active directory domain then clock drift can cause major problems, because Windows uses the Kerberos protocol for authentication, and Kerberos is time sensitive. So if clocks become out of sync by more than a few minutes, you can have any number of problems that occur. So there is a way that you can bring the clocks into sync. The best option is to synchronize the Windows clock with an NTP server, NTP standing for Network Time Protocol. Now, ideally what I'm about to show you you would want to perform at the active directory level, but you can do it at the local group policy level, particularly if you've got a standalone Windows 10 PC. So let's go ahead and take a look at how this works. What I'm going to do is right click on the start…
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