No, but you pose an interesting challenge...

Update: I might be able to do something with "time /t" and "net time" and some slice-and-dice using grep & tail. Some assumptions are going to be made, such as "there's a local DC configured to provide time to domain members," for the time being. If you'll pardon the pun.

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Legacy Posted By Username: GreyDuck

Not quite what you've asked for
however, I like to make sure all workstations and servers agree on the time, thus I run this script on them all to ensure they all stay right.

All it does is set them all to use the same NTP server to set the time. I'm sure others can get you something closer to what your actually after.

Ben.

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Script Name: Set NTP Servers to OCEANIA.POOL.NTP.ORG
Script Description: net time /setsntp:"0.oceania.pool.ntp.org 1.oceania.pool.ntp.org 2.oceania.pool.ntp.org"

IF True
THEN
Execute Shell Command
Parameter 1 : net time /setsntp:"0.oceania.pool.ntp.org 1.oceania.pool.ntp.org 2.oceania.pool.ntp.org"
Parameter 2 : 1
OS Type : 0
ELSE

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Legacy Posted By Username: benhamilton

Yes but anything can happen when the commands are sent. I am sure you have run into to time sync issues even after setting the time server to the same as other workstations. I simply would like to be notified if time on the local workstation is off by more than 10 minutes from the domain / DC time.

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Legacy Posted By Username: richie3333

If you monitor the event logs, any domain member should alert if it can't connect to a DC and any DC should alert if it can't connect to an external server. The inability to connect should be received well before a system has drifted by 5 or 10 minutes.

Also a couple of notes on NTP is a domain...

1.) Do not set specific ntp servers for anything but domain controllers....all other systems need to sync time through the domain hierarchy.

2.) pool.ntp.org is great....much better than time.windows.com; just make sure you use the pool closest to you....I assume oceania is Australia/New Zealand/etc

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Legacy Posted By Username: karode

karode

1.) Do not set specific ntp servers for anything but domain controllers....all other systems need to sync time through the domain hierarchy.

2.) pool.ntp.org is great....much better than time.windows.com; just make sure you use the pool closest to you....I assume oceania is Australia/New Zealand/etc

Agreed. Set the servers to use pool.net.org, and yes, oceania is the one I use here in AUS. Get the workstations to sync with the local server.

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Legacy Posted By Username: benhamilton

richie3333

Yes but anything can happen when the commands are sent. I am sure you have run into to time sync issues even after setting the time server to the same as other workstations. I simply would like to be notified if time on the local workstation is off by more than 10 minutes from the domain / DC time.

I agree, but I haven't yet found an elegant and foolproof way to do this.

As another poster has noted, it may be effort better spent to look for event log entries which indicate the problem (domain auth issues, mainly, which you want to be looking for anyway).

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Legacy Posted By Username: GreyDuck