42. SNTP in Active Directory

• Simple Network Time Protocol
• Automatically synchronizes clocks on machines that are members of Active Directory domains
• Synchronization hierarchy can be defined
• All times in Windows Server 2003 are stored as Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) and adjusted in the GUI for the time zone
• Time synchronization is not vital for Active Directory replication (differs from other directory services), but is crucial for Kerberos authentication