Event ID 266 — W32time Service received notification to rediscover its time sources and/or resynchronize time.

Description

W32time Service received notification to rediscover its time sources and/or resynchronize time. Reason Code:Name System Tick Count: ReasonCode.

Message #

W32time Service received notification to rediscover its time sources and/or resynchronize time. Reason Code:%1 System Tick Count: %2
Reason code description:
0 : An explicit time resynchronization request from an administrator
1 : Power state changes on this machine
2 : Changes to the network interface or to the network topology
3 : State changes within W32time that require time synchronization
The actions that follow this notifcation may impact fine-grained time synchronization accuracy.For more information, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=845961.

Fields #

Example Event #

{
  "system": {
    "provider": "Microsoft-Windows-Time-Service",
    "guid": "06EDCFEB-0FD0-4E53-ACCA-A6F8BBF81BCB",
    "event_source_name": "",
    "event_id": 266,
    "version": 0,
    "level": 4,
    "task": 0,
    "opcode": 0,
    "keywords": 4611686018427387904,
    "time_created": "2023-11-06T06:25:53.076531+00:00",
    "event_record_id": 15,
    "correlation": {},
    "execution": {
      "process_id": 1644,
      "thread_id": 1716
    },
    "channel": "Microsoft-Windows-Time-Service/Operational",
    "computer": "WinDev2310Eval",
    "security": {
      "user_id": "S-1-5-19"
    }
  },
  "event_data": {
    "Name": "TMP_OPS_TIME_RESYNC_EVENT",
    "ReasonCode": 0,
    "TickCount": 77484
  },
  "message": ""
}

References #

• Example event sourced from https://github.com/NextronSystems/evtx-baseline