I have used the "timezone /s startTime stopTime" command successfully on windows 2003 servers. However, I get an "access denied" on WS08 servers. I can not use windows update to update the time change for these windows 2008 servers. I do not want to change the time zone (so the tzutil is not the correct utility). So the following posts do not apply: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/w7itpro & http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsserver I need to know if I get the timezone utility to work on 2003. If not, I can do this time change through the GUI but this is not my first choice since I have multiple servers. I would script this if I had been aware of the access denied earlier and been able to test this. Anyhow, I'm hoping that someone out there was able to get the timezone command line tool to work on 2008. TIA

Hello, to understand you correct, you need to reconfigure the time and not the time zone on Windows server 2008 machines? Time configuration you can do with the w32tm command line. If the machine belongs to a domain the time sync is done automatically, time master is the DC with the PDCemulator FSMO, all other DCs sync with this one and the domain machines use an available DC.Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.

Hi, According to the problem description, this issue mostly can be caused by User Account Controller (UAC). Please right click on the Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator” to check if the commands can be run successfully. For more information regarding Windows Time, please refer to the following Microsoft articles: How the Windows Time Service Works http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773013(WS.10).aspx How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042 Regards,Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.