Set system clock during Minisetup or earlier

Todd Miller

I am running into a problem where my GPO is not applying to machines on the
first boot because the system BIOS clock is off. I need to ensure that the
system bios clock is synchronized with the network time on the DCs.

To do this I have tried the following.

In cmdlines.txt I have addeed these three lines - before the sysprep line.

"net use \\MyDC\ipc$ /USEROMAIN\USER password"
"net time \\myDC /SET /Y"
"net use /d \\MyDC"

This should set the system clock during the minisetup portion of the
installation, but it doesn't seem to be working.

Can anyone think of a way to synchronize the system clock durring any stage
of the OSD/BDD deployment prior to the first log on attempt? Or point out to
me why this is unable to set the clock during mini-setup?

I have tried putting similar code into my userexit.vbs script, but that
doesn't work because WinPE 2005's "net time" doesn't set the system clock
(unlike WinPE 2004 or WinPE 2.0!!!)

Todd Miller

In looking around some more, I got the idea to try

"w32tm /resync" instead of all the net commands. This was also
unsuccessful. Bummer.

"Todd Miller" wrote:

> I am running into a problem where my GPO is not applying to machines on the
> first boot because the system BIOS clock is off. I need to ensure that the
> system bios clock is synchronized with the network time on the DCs.
>
> To do this I have tried the following.
>
> In cmdlines.txt I have addeed these three lines - before the sysprep line.
>
> "net use \\MyDC\ipc$ /USEROMAIN\USER password"
> "net time \\myDC /SET /Y"
> "net use /d \\MyDC"
>
> This should set the system clock during the minisetup portion of the
> installation, but it doesn't seem to be working.
>
> Can anyone think of a way to synchronize the system clock durring any stage
> of the OSD/BDD deployment prior to the first log on attempt? Or point out to
> me why this is unable to set the clock during mini-setup?
>
> I have tried putting similar code into my userexit.vbs script, but that
> doesn't work because WinPE 2005's "net time" doesn't set the system clock
> (unlike WinPE 2004 or WinPE 2.0!!!)

bn2hunt

Have you found a fix for this yet? We are having the same problem