Kerberos Replication failure - clocks are skewed

Question

We had a planned power outage this weekend. I brought down the Virtual Machines in a controlled manner. Everything came back up operational except for my replication. When I tried to resume the replication it would throw an error stating the clocks were skewed. I tried various things to no results. I eventually deleted the replication and tried to recreate it but am still getting the same error.

See the attached image. I am trying to replicate VM W19edi-itx01 from VM W19vmh-itx01 to VM W19vmh-itx02. This was the configuration that I had before that has worked for a year.
Note the time on all three servers are in synch timewise (within 5 minutes which I understand is the Kerberos limit?).

Any ideas are appreciated as I am out of them.

Answer 1

Hi,
This may be caused by a time difference between your VMs. You could synchronize the time of servers and the domain controller with the commands
w32tm /config /syncfromflags:DOMHIER /update
w32tm /resync /nowait
net stop w32time
net start w32time

For more details about Windows Time service tools and settings you may refer to this article
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/windows-time-service/windows-time-service-tools-and-settings

I find some similar issues and you may refer to the links below
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/7c638371-f4b4-4a5c-83a8-03218fa03b7f/msexchangesa-the-clocks-on-the-client-and-server-machines-are-skewed?forum=exchange2010
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/988a8c77-5fb6-4f0e-8f5e-8e425188c18c/the-clocks-on-the-client-and-server-machines-are-skewed?forum=sqldatabaseengine

Best Regards,
Ian Xue