The Windows NTP has always worked for me since the XP days. I've never had to fiddle with it.
NTP works fine on my XP and Win2k3 boxes. For some reason it doesn't seem to work properly on my single Vista box. It works if I kick off a sync manually, sometimes, but never seems to manage to sync automatically.
It works well on our XP machines on 2003 servers, on two time zones (GMT+1, GMT-5)that change time on different days, and Exchange server for both sharing calendars in both time zones. Never had an issue with NTP cross the entire organization with Windows machines either. I do have issues with NTP from our of the org time servers, at times, including the default time.windows.com .
I never tried this on Vista in a corp environment, and never looked into how the time handling works in Windows, actually. I neve knew anything about this issue, as it simply "just worked" for us.
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