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Time Zone configuration profiles and policies
Hello,
I'm trying to find out the way to control "automatic time zone change" option to allow users to turn it off or on.
On the Intune side there is a configuration profile using OMA-URI settings ("./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/UserRights/ChangeTimeZone" with string "LOCAL SERVICEAdministratorsUsers").
This one controls whether user can change the Time Zone manually in the Control Panel (the old school way) and it also reflects in the Settings when the "Set time zone automatically" is turned off however we have some users that have this option greyed out and I have not found a way how to change this from the Intune side.
Users are normally standard users and they do not have administrative rights by default but they should be able to change some of the settings when they invoke "elevation mode" eg in the 1st picture below if I would switch "Set time zone automatically" on I would be presented with authentication dialog and after authentication the setting would turn on.
1st case - user can change the "set time zone automatically" option on/off but is not in the group that is allowed to manually change the time zone hence it does not even show the time zone choices (this reflects the configuration profile mentioned above)
2nd case - user can change the "set time zone automatically" option on/off and is in the group that is allowed to manually change the time zone => shows additional options Time Zone and DST.
3rd case - user can not change the "set time zone automatically" option at all means can't change the TZ or DST in Settings, but is able to change time zone via Control Panel (see below)
And the question for the million $$$ 🙂 is if or where is the option / configuration that makes the "Set time zone automatically" greyed out.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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last time i tried but failed. according to microsoft, it is not possible for user account to toggle between on and off for 'set time zone automatically'
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/shell-experience/cannot-set-timezone-automatically
Admin rights is not an issue in my case. We have tool that elevates the access so even standard users are able to switch it ON/OFF, the main problem I'm trying to solve is why some users do have that option greyed-out because those are not able to change the settings at all.
Hi PavelDuda1455 , whether the Windows 11 settings option to set the time zone automatically is greyed out or not, is not just dependent on admin rights. It's also dependent on the location service being enabled.
Well that seems like obvious conclusion but it is not correct. In all of the cases depicted above the users do NOT have admin rights and location services are enabled on all of them.
PavelDuda1455 I don't mean admin rights, I mean the location services. In the Windows settings search for "Location" and try enabling it. If it says the location services were disabled by an admin, this is done during the OOBE I believe. Then sign in to the device with an admin and there you can change the Location service setting. Enable it, sign back in with the standard user and then check the time zone settings.
