Auditing the System Time of Windows Servers

 Executive Summary:

Run the SystemTimeAudit.vbs script before and after the switch to and from Daylight Saving Time to ensure that all your Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server systems are time synchronized. You can also run SystemTimeAudit.vbs to check the time synchronization of your servers if you need a tool to help troubleshoot time-related Kerberos authentication problems in your Active Directory domain. SystemTimeAudit.vbs builds on the ScriptTemplate.vbs script to check which servers might be out of sync.

The earlier shift to Daylight Saving Time (DST) that occurred last spring in the U.S. posed some concern for system administrators because Kerberos, the preferred protocol used for authentication by computer systems in Active Directory (AD) domains, relies upon time synchronization between computers to work properly. Therefore, I wrote a script called SystemTimeAudit.vbs to audit the system time of the servers in my company's AD domains and validate their change to and from DST. . . .