Hey everyone! Allan Sandoval from the Directory Services team here.
We've all experienced a lot of changes since the rise of cloud computing and virtualization, and our time synchronization ...
Updated Nov 21, 2024
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Synchronizing Time on Virtualized AD DS Environments - VMICTimeProvider vs AD
Allan, with all due respect, the content of this blog is a bit scatter-brained and containing some conflicting information. Can you please clarify and clean things up for us?
- The title is "Synchronizing Time on a Forest Root PDC housed within an Entra VM". What is an Entra VM? As far as I can know, that's not an actual thing. Do you mean a VM hosted in Azure?
- Can you please point out the actual scope of this blog? Is it only the situation where someone has a DC hosted in Azure and downstream domain joined machines also hosted in Azure? Is it for when the DC is hosted on-prem and there's some kind of VPN tunnel to your Azure-hosted domain joined machines? Because based on the comments so far, there seems to be confusion as to where the line is drawn in the sand about when to worry about this.
Sorry for stirring the pot, but the verbiage and flow of the article could use some love to help improve when people should even worry about this.