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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Micah,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I think your Unity will pull the time from your Domain
Controller (DC) as a member server in the domain. It will ignore the Publisher
as a Time server in your configuration. You should configure DC to use an
external time source though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>At the end, your Publisher and DC server will point to a couple
of external time sources. The subscribers and IPCCX will synchronize with the publisher
and the Unity/Exchange will synchronize with DC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Guelph, N1G 2W1, ON<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Micah Bennett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> May-21-08 12:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] Still confused on Unity Time Sync<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hello
All</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
am trying to understand and confirm where my Unity server is pulling its time
from. My CCMs and IPCC servers are all working correctly. They are
using the NTP service and the configuration that is specified in the ntp.conf
file on each server. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We
are using Unity 4.2. This server (Win Server 2000) is part of our Domain
because we are using Unified Messaging tied to our exchange server.</span><span
lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>When
I went to a command prompt on the Unity server</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and tried
to do</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“net time” I get and error
message</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“System Error 5 has</span><span
lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>occurred”.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
have read and re-read this document from Cisco and I am still lost.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a
href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/products_configuration_example09186a008009470f.shtml"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/products_configuration_example09186a008009470f.shtml</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Some
other time documents from Microsoft mentioned the registry entries under
W32Time so I went there</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>on the Unity server
to see what was configured. </span><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters</span><span
lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
found a</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>reference to the IP address of my Call
Manager Publisher server. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>My
guess is that our install partner hard coded the Unity server to point to our
publisher instead of just letting it pull from the domain controller (pulling
from the domain controller appears to be the default setup when using the
W32Time service.) I can not find any reference in Cisco docs</span><span
lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>to
these registry entries, and the Microsoft reference seems to be only for Server
2003 not Server 2000.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It
seems to be</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>working and the time matches across
all my systems. Has anyone seen this setup before? It</span><span
lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>sure
is proving difficult to get an understanding of our configuration, when even
the initial install from our partner does not seem to match</span><span
lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>the
documentation.</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks
in advance for any guidance.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a name=""><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Micah Bennett</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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