NTP Protocol blocked - looking for an alternative

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I'm currently working in an environment that is a small part of a much
larger enterprise environment. The systems i'm dealing with are
currently being migrated from NT4 domains to AD.

The biggest problem I'm faced with, is I don't control the firewall,
and the NTP protocol is being blocked in the process of everything (I'm
told by the upper echelon that this is necessary to security reasons).
While I do applaud their concerns for better security, we still need
the server times sync'ed for regular operations to work properly.

Anyway, I'm curious if anyone knows of a way to run a batch from a
single location and set the time on several systems remotely. The
problem is, anything I add to any system is subject to auditing. If I
add batch files to each system to sync the time, I'll go through audit
work on every single system for this. Therefore, I would like to do
this just from one location (one set of reports isn't extremely bad).

So, basically... I guess you could say I'm trying to find a way to push
the time out. Does anyone have any ideas how to achieve this? Thanks!

Bob Wiley
 
Find out if one of the other servers in the over-all system has accuarte
time (maybe synced from some kind of time source). Then on your DC, the one
with the PDC role if you have more than one DC, will sync its time to that
machine. It can be done with the Net Time in a batch file run once a day
with the Task Scheduler. The task can even be set to run under particular
credentials.
 
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