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--- howto:windowshowto [2013/05/02 21:42] – [Partition the USB Flash drive as needed] admin
+++ howto:windowshowto [2020/02/11 02:59] (current) – admin
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 ==== Partition the USB Flash drive as needed ====
-Use EaseUS partiotion manager: [[http://www.partition-tool.com/|Free EaseUS Home Edition]]
+Use EaseUS partition manager: [[http://www.partition-tool.com/|Free EaseUS Home Edition]]
 === Using Diskpart ===
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   *http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
 You can use USB FLASH drive > 4GB for installing Windows 7 using the Microsoft tool
+===== Offline disk cloning =====
+==== Use Clonezilla from USB ====
+Clonezilla live USB: https://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php
+  - Download [[http://tuxboot.org/|Tuxboot]] on your MS Windows computer.
+  - From MS Windows, run the Tuxboot program and follow the instructions in the GUI to install Clonezilla Live on your USB flash drive.
+  - [[https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone|Boot from USB and clone]]
 ==== Running Symantec SRD from USB ====
-http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/techtip-installing-symantec-recovery-disk-srd-usb-flash-drive
+  - Use diskpart to create partition, format as ntfs
+  - When complete, the formatted USB drive is ready to be made bootable.
+      * Insert a Windows Vista or Windows 7 Setup disk into the DVD-ROM drive and note the drive letter of the DVD-ROM drive and USB drive.
+      * At the command prompt, change to the DVD-ROM drive by typing D:and press Enter. Where D is the drive letter of the DVD-ROM. Then type CD BOOT.
+      * Type bootsect /nt60 x: (Where x: is the drive letter of your USB drive).
+  - Copy SRD files to the USB drive
 ===== How to change the Remote Desktop port in Windows XP =====
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 Done
+==== Setting up the NTP server on a domain controller ====
+For USA use timservers from NTP pool project:
+	   server 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org
+	   server 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org
+	   server 2.north-america.pool.ntp.org
+	   server 3.north-america.pool.ntp.org
+per http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/north-america
+From [[http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8863.time-service-configuration-on-dc-with-pdc-emulator-fsmo-role.aspx#Configure_External_Time_service_on_DC_holding_PDC_emulator_role|Technet]]:
+Configure External Time service on DC holding PDC emulator role
+Here we will have to make use of External Time Source ( Internet). To Accomplish this follow below steps.
+  - Open a Command Prompt.
+  - Type the following command to display the time difference between the local computer and a target computer, and then press ENTER:
+  w32tm /stripchart /computer: target /samples: n /dataonly
+  * target: Specifies the Domain Name System (DNS) name or IP address of the NTP server that you are comparing the local computer's time against, for example, time.windows.com.
+  * n: Specifies the number of time samples that will be returned from the target computer to test basic NTP communication.
+  * eg: w32tm /stripchart /computer:time.windows.com /samples:5 /dataonly
+  - Open User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port 123 for outgoing traffic if needed.
+  - Open UDP port 123 (or a different port that you have selected) for incoming NTP traffic.
+  - Type the following command to configure the PDC emulator, and then press ENTER:
+  w32tm /config /manualpeerlist: peers /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update
+  * where peers specifies the list of DNS names or IP addresses of the NTP time source that the PDC emulator synchronizes from. For example, you can specify time.windows.com. When specifying multiple peers, use a coma as the delimiter and enclose them in quotation marks.
+  * For example, to configure your PDC emulator to use the following list of time servers:
+  * 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org 2.north-america.pool.ntp.org 3.north-america.pool.ntp.org
+  * Run the following command:
+  w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"0.north-america.pool.ntp.org,1.north-america.pool.ntp.org,2.north-america.pool.ntp.org,3.north-america.pool.ntp.org" /reliable:yes /update
+Verify the settings in the Windows registry:
+  * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters\Type should be NTP
+  * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config\AnnounceFlags should be 5
+    * Note: If an authoritative time server that is configured to use an AnnounceFlag value of 0x5 does not synchronize with an upstream time server, a client server may not correctly synchronize with the authoritative time server when the time synchronization between the authoritative time server and the upstream time server resumes. Therefore, if you have a poor network connection or other concerns that may cause time synchronization failure of the authoritative server to an upstream server, set the AnnounceFlag value to 0xA instead of to 0x5.
+  * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpServer  Enabled = 1
+  * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters NtpServer = 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org 2.north-america.pool.ntp.org 3.north-america.pool.ntp.org
+  * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient\SpecialPollInterval SpecialPollInterval = 900
+  * restart service:
+    * net stop w32time && net start w32time
+  * Verify that UDP Port 123 is open
+Notes:
+  * [[http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8863.time-service-configuration-on-dc-with-pdc-emulator-fsmo-role.aspx#Configure_External_Time_service_on_DC_holding_PDC_emulator_role|Technet source]]
+  * Some settings were not saved from the command line
+  * The priod was not saved correctly, even if the refistry, the resulting value was 512s.
+  *