Daylight Saving Time Update for Windows 2000 Servers

Microsoft does not support Windows 2000 anymore and it shows this time, on the occation of daylight saving time change update - ony XP and Server 2003 were updated automatically.

If you are running Windows 2000 you will have to do a bit more work for the daylight saving time change. Microsoft has released KB article 914387 which outlines the process you must go to for the change. There are two methods by which you can change the time zone for Windows 2000 (Professional and Server). The first is to download the TZEdit tool from Microsoft. Once installed, you can run this tool (it installs by default to c:\Program Files\TZEdit\) to manually create and change your time zones. This method will require you to manually change every computer. While this is not a major task if you only have a few Windows 2000, it can be quite daunting if you have a large number of systems to update.

The second method provided by Microsoft for updating Windows 2000 is a combination of a registry edit and a VBS script. These are both available here, though you must copy the text for each of them and save them locally with the proper file extensions (.reg and .vbs respectively). You must then import the registry settings change (by double clicking the .reg file you created), then run the vbs script to perform the update. This process can easily be automated.

Microsoft provides steps to automate the process through group policy (by making a simple command file), but it can also be done using a batch file or another VB script. The only requirement again is that administrator privileges are used to run the files or the script created. This can be mitigated by using group policy to assign it as a startup or shutdown script for a computer not a user.

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