Server 2008 server won’t sync time with domain controller

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I have two Server 2008 machines on a network (a virtual network; they are both VMs running in VMware Server). One server is a Full Server 2008 installation, and was the first DC I installed. The second server is running Server Core and is also a DC. (This is a test network that I am using for a specific project.)

The problem is that the time/date on the Server Core machine is apparently not syncing up with the other server. I've tried

w32tm.exe /resync /nowait

and have also tried 

w32tm /config /update /syncfromflags:DOMHIER

and then trying to resync again, but neither seems to work. I'm still getting a completely different time/date on the Server Core machine.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Best Answer

Have you configured the VMWare to not push the host time to your VM's? The default behavior of Virtual Services is to have the VM's get their time/date from the VM Host...

Here is an article I found using a search that talks about enabling/disabling time sync with the host...

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