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Secure Time Seeding on DCs: A Note from the Field

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Sep 09, 2024
Update 4/30/2025: Official recommendation to disable Secure Time Seeding on DCs can be found here: Secure Time Seeding Recommendations for Windows Server - Windows Server | Microsoft Learn     ...
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Sep 19, 2024

stefan1990 If you are concerned that this feature could impact your environment, and you have full faith and confidence in your current NTP design, yes, you would likely want to configure this to be disabled on all DCs and members.