STIGQter: STIG Summary: Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 Member Server Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 3 Release: 2 Benchmark Date: 04 May 2021: STIGQter: STIG Summary: Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 Member Server Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 3 Release: 2 Benchmark Date: 04 May 2021:SV-225361r569185_rule
V-225361
SRG-OS-000355-GPOS-00143
WN12-CC-000069
CAT III
10
If the system needs to be configured to an NTP server, configure the system to point to an authorized time server by setting the policy value for Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> System >> Windows Time Service >> Time Providers >> "Configure Windows NTP Client" to "Enabled", and configure the "NtpServer" field to point to an authorized time server.
The US Naval Observatory operates stratum 1 time servers, identified at http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html. Time synchronization will occur through a hierarchy of time servers down to the local level. Clients and lower-level servers will synchronize with an authorized time server in the hierarchy.
Open "Windows PowerShell" or an elevated "Command Prompt" (run as administrator).
Enter "W32tm /query /configuration".
Domain-joined systems are automatically configured with a "Type" of "NT5DS" to synchronize with domain controllers and would not be a finding.
If systems are configured with a "Type" of "NTP", including standalone systems and the forest root domain controller with the PDC Emulator role, and do not have a DoD time server defined for "NTPServer", this is a finding. (See V-8557 in the Active Directory Forest STIG for the time source requirement of the forest root domain PDC emulator.)
If an alternate time synchronization tool is used and is not enabled or not configured to synchronize with a DoD time source, this is a finding.
The US Naval Observatory operates stratum 1 time servers, identified at http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html. Time synchronization will occur through a hierarchy of time servers down to the local level. Clients and lower-level servers will synchronize with an authorized time server in the hierarchy.
V-225361
False
WN12-CC-000069
Open "Windows PowerShell" or an elevated "Command Prompt" (run as administrator).
Enter "W32tm /query /configuration".
Domain-joined systems are automatically configured with a "Type" of "NT5DS" to synchronize with domain controllers and would not be a finding.
If systems are configured with a "Type" of "NTP", including standalone systems and the forest root domain controller with the PDC Emulator role, and do not have a DoD time server defined for "NTPServer", this is a finding. (See V-8557 in the Active Directory Forest STIG for the time source requirement of the forest root domain PDC emulator.)
If an alternate time synchronization tool is used and is not enabled or not configured to synchronize with a DoD time source, this is a finding.
The US Naval Observatory operates stratum 1 time servers, identified at http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html. Time synchronization will occur through a hierarchy of time servers down to the local level. Clients and lower-level servers will synchronize with an authorized time server in the hierarchy.
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