Visual Studio 2010 RC Released

Looks like a bunch of new downloads showed up on MSDN, SP2007 with SP2 baked in, Office 2007 with SP2 baked in, .Net 4 RC, and a couple more.

I ran off to download the updates, and noticed one thing…

“Please note: The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC release does not support Silverlight 4 development. If you are developing a Silverlight 4 application you should continue to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.”

Just a note, if you are playing around or working with Silverlight 4, beware, and do not upgrade just yet.

Windows Server 2008 – NTP for a DC

Apparently a DC in my office has the wrong time in bios, and since it is a PDC, it uses this time by default.

So how do we change this to use something like, oh NTP?

NTP is Network Time Protocol, a standard with a real following :)

http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/ is a good place to start looking for the time servers you might like to use, as well as some simple information on how to set times for both Linux and Windows servers.  One drawback is that there is a change for Windows servers since 2003.  Net Time /... is no longer used, instead there is a windows service managed by w32tm.

MS Link here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784553(WS.10).aspx

And the good stuff...

For US users, you can use the following commands to make the changes:

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:0.us.pool.ntp.org,1.us.pool.ntp.org,2.us.pool.ntp.org,3.us.pool.ntp.org /syncfromflags:MANUAL
w32tm /config /update

A few seconds later, my time is correct, and then the time on all the machines in my domain are also correct. 

Hope this helps save you some time.