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rajnet2User is Offline

Posts:56

07/09/2009 5:31 PM  
Hi,

I want do a task of change the time zone for certain group of computers. I
have single domain & forest. All DC servers, computers and users located at
single site. All the systems will use another time zone, few users have to
be in different time zone wrt DC. Is their any way around to accomplish this
task. Can I do this through GP.

Rajneesh

ParzivalUser is Offline

Posts:107

07/09/2009 8:38 PM  
HI,

You can control the timezone by a number of ways..
The timezone is stored in: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones

You can adjust that key by Group Policy Preferences.. and also take note of
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\TimeZone Information

that is used for the 2nd timezone (after switching zones)..

You can also kick off a script that tells the machine to go to a different timezone through the cpl..
Control.exe TIMEDATE.CPL,,/Z (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana

for the last command see also: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment/msg/d793d6a07382f2f7

Roelf
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From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org [activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of rajneesh kumar [rajnet2@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:29 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] TimeZone synchronization

Hi,

I want do a task of change the time zone for certain group of computers. I have single domain & forest. All DC servers, computers and users located at single site. All the systems will use another time zone, few users have to be in different time zone wrt DC. Is their any way around to accomplish this task. Can I do this through GP.

Rajneesh

Ravi.Sabharanjak@barclaysglobal.comUser is Offline

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07/09/2009 9:21 PM  

I'm sure you'll find your answer here -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387/

Couple of scripts and also steps to use group policy for deployment in
there. The article relates to DST, however you should be able to tweak
those scripts to change the time zone as well.

Also attaching a script from an earlier version of the kb article that I
used for deploying DST changes to win2k some time back.

-Ravi


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From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of rajneesh kumar
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:29 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] TimeZone synchronization


Hi,

I want do a task of change the time zone for certain group of computers.
I have single domain & forest. All DC servers, computers and users
located at single site. All the systems will use another time zone, few
users have to be in different time zone wrt DC. Is their any way around
to accomplish this task. Can I do this through GP.

Rajneesh



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07/09/2009 10:02 PM  
You could wrap something like

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/79838/jsi-tip-7525-how-do-i-set-th
e-time-zone-from-the-command-line.html

in a startup script applied via GPO.

Not sure if there is anything in the GPO settings themselves.

joe


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From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of rajneesh kumar
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:29 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] TimeZone synchronization


Hi,

I want do a task of change the time zone for certain group of computers. I
have single domain & forest. All DC servers, computers and users located at
single site. All the systems will use another time zone, few users have to
be in different time zone wrt DC. Is their any way around to accomplish this
task. Can I do this through GP.

Rajneesh


rajnet2User is Offline

Posts:56

07/09/2009 11:13 PM  
Hi,

I already actually did this trick before posting it here, but don't know why
it didn't work. Might be I missed something or not. Still figuring out why
it didn't work. I tried it by running by creating startup script and try to
run it via GP, but ..... NO SUCCESS. Again my goal is to set the different
time zone for certain no. of users, not for whole domain.

Rajneesh

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM, joe <listmail@joeware.net> wrote:

> You could wrap something like
>
>
> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/79838/jsi-tip-7525-how-do-i-set-the-time-zone-from-the-command-line.html
>
> in a startup script applied via GPO.
>
> Not sure if there is anything in the GPO settings themselves.
>
> joe
>
>
> --
> O'Reilly Active Directory Fourth Edition -
> http://www.joeware.net/win/ad4e.htm
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:
> activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] *On Behalf Of *rajneesh kumar
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:29 PM
> *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
> *Subject:* [ActiveDir] TimeZone synchronization
>
> Hi,
>
> I want do a task of change the time zone for certain group of computers. I
> have single domain & forest. All DC servers, computers and users located at
> single site. All the systems will use another time zone, few users have to
> be in different time zone wrt DC. Is their any way around to accomplish this
> task. Can I do this through GP.
>
> Rajneesh
>

gabriel/tfiUser is Offline

Posts:425

07/09/2009 11:50 PM  
GPOs can be linked to subOUs and filtered by security groups (or WMI query),
they don’t apply to whole domain only (they rarely do).

GPP has even a much more granular targeting (I LOVE IT!). Right now I can’t
check it out, but I would not be surprised if GPP natively had the Time Zone
preference.



Also a script itself can query AD to determine if a user belongs to a
certain group and run some codes accordingly (it’s also a common practice to
map network drives and printers).

I don’t know if there’s an AD attribute to store “Favorite Time Zone” for a
user/computer to be checked in a script, I know there’s “Favorite Drink”
(drink), but I doubt there’s “Favorite TZ”… J



Gabriele.



From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of rajneesh kumar
Sent: venerdì 10 luglio 2009 0.13
To: activedir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] TimeZone synchronization



Hi,

I already actually did this trick before posting it here, but don't know why
it didn't work. Might be I missed something or not. Still figuring out why
it didn't work. I tried it by running by creating startup script and try to
run it via GP, but ..... NO SUCCESS. Again my goal is to set the different
time zone for certain no. of users, not for whole domain.

Rajneesh

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM, joe <listmail@joeware.net> wrote:

You could wrap something like



http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/79838/jsi-tip-7525-how-do-i-set-th
e-time-zone-from-the-command-line.html



in a startup script applied via GPO.



Not sure if there is anything in the GPO settings themselves.



joe





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http://www.joeware.net/win/ad4e.htm







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From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of rajneesh kumar

Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:29 PM


To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] TimeZone synchronization



Hi,

I want do a task of change the time zone for certain group of computers. I
have single domain & forest. All DC servers, computers and users located at
single site. All the systems will use another time zone, few users have to
be in different time zone wrt DC. Is their any way around to accomplish this
task. Can I do this through GP.

Rajneesh




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Posts:296

07/10/2009 7:15 PM  
Thank you Microsoft for tzutil on R2 :)

Thank you, Tony.


Tony Gordon
Windows 2003 & 2000 MCSE, Windows 2003 MCSA, PMP
ITS Infrastructure Engineering
Hewitt Associates | 100 Half Day Road | Lincolnshire, IL 60069 | USA
Tel 847.295.5000 x37892 | Fax 847.883.7892
tony dot gordon at hewitt dot tld | www.hewitt.com
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From:
joe <listmail@joeware.net>
To:
activedir@mail.activedir.org
Date:
07/09/2009 03:59 PM
Subject:
RE: [ActiveDir] TimeZone synchronization
Sent by:
activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org



You could wrap something like

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/79838/jsi-tip-7525-how-do-i-set-the-time-zone-from-the-command-line.html

in a startup script applied via GPO.

Not sure if there is anything in the GPO settings themselves.

joe


--
O'Reilly Active Directory Fourth Edition -
http://www.joeware.net/win/ad4e.htm



From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org [
mailto:activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of rajneesh kumar
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:29 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] TimeZone synchronization

Hi,

I want do a task of change the time zone for certain group of computers. I
have single domain & forest. All DC servers, computers and users located
at single site. All the systems will use another time zone, few users have
to be in different time zone wrt DC. Is their any way around to accomplish
this task. Can I do this through GP.

Rajneesh




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ParzivalUser is Offline

Posts:107

07/11/2009 11:58 AM  
I would have guessed it to be in GPP's.. perhaps in a next release ?

Roelf

From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gordon
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 8:11 PM
To: activedir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] TimeZone synchronization

Thank you Microsoft for tzutil on R2 :)

Thank you, Tony.

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Tony Gordon
Windows 2003 & 2000 MCSE, Windows 2003 MCSA, PMP
ITS Infrastructure Engineering
Hewitt Associates | 100 Half Day Road | Lincolnshire, IL 60069 | USA
Tel 847.295.5000 x37892 | Fax 847.883.7892
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To:

activedir@mail.activedir.org

Date:

07/09/2009 03:59 PM

Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] TimeZone synchronization

Sent by:

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You could wrap something like

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/79838/jsi-tip-7525-how-do-i-set-the-time-zone-from-the-command-line.html

in a startup script applied via GPO.

Not sure if there is anything in the GPO settings themselves.

joe


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________________________________
From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of rajneesh kumar
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:29 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] TimeZone synchronization

Hi,

I want do a task of change the time zone for certain group of computers. I have single domain & forest. All DC servers, computers and users located at single site. All the systems will use another time zone, few users have to be in different time zone wrt DC. Is their any way around to accomplish this task. Can I do this through GP.

Rajneesh
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