Make Windows Server 2003 use external NNTP servers in just a few steps:

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For future reference, running these commands in a shell is much faster than trying to follow Microsoft’s Knowledge Base instructions (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042).

C:> w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org",0x8 /syncfromflags:MANUAL
C:> w32tm /config /update
C:> net stop w32time
C:> net start w32time
C:> w32tm /resync /nowait

Thanks to Dave Nickason who posted this in 2008 to the Microsoft Forums![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]