Group Policy Enforcement for NTP

As per last few post I did write about setup a NTP server on Ubuntu. So now here I going to write about consuming the NTP service in Window environment with the use of Group policy.

Step 1
Click "Start," type "gpedit.msc" into the search box, press "Enter" and select "Group Policy Editor" from the list of results.

Step 2
Double-click "Computer Configuration | Administrative Template | System | Windows Time Service|Time Provider"

After click on  "Time Provider", from the right pane there are few option for you to do the configuration. So you may enable the NTP and configure the parameters for the NTP.


Step 3
Select "Enabled" to respond to time synchronization queries; click "Disabled" to ignore requests.

Step 4
Configure the group policy object accordingly.

Step 5
Verify the policy is working by gpupdate /force in client PC and do a reboot. Then locate the registry and look for the value is change accordingly.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\Parameters