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IngeborgHawighorst
MVP
Jan 11, 2018

Wrong time zone and date format

Hello,

 

I've noticed that for our tenant, all OneDrive for Business sites have US date format. I am versed in SharePoint, so I know to go to Site Settings and change the regional settings. But that's just me.

 

As an administrator, I need to change all of our user sites to NZ region and language. Note that we sync from local AD, but the language field in AD is blank. I assume that means that the tenant default language and region is applied.

 

Questions:

1. Where can I set the default region and language for the tenant, so that new users get correct OD4B settings for my country?

2. How can I most efficiently change all existing OD4B sites in our tenant to the correct region and time zone?

office 365
OneDrive for Business
    • IngeborgHawighorst's avatar
      IngeborgHawighorst
      MVP
      Jan 16, 2018

      Thanks, I'll take a look at that. It's astounding, though, that this is so hard to do, i.e. not possible with the Office Admin GUI. Or am I missing something?

       

      Is Powershell the ONLY way to set the region and time zone for a single region tenant who is not in the US? How do US businesses on the East cost change from the default Pacific time to their time zone? Is Powershell really the only option?

       

      Surely, Microsoft can't expect everyone to default to a US setting. Why do they make it so hard to apply non-US as a tenant setting?

    • IngeborgHawighorst's avatar
      IngeborgHawighorst
      MVP
      Apr 04, 2019

      RuthJ  Thanks for posting that. I wasn't aware of this setting.  Do you know if it applies to new OneDrive for Business sites, too? Because the fine print says that it applies "when you create a new modern site". And time zone is just one thing. The region is the other setting that needs adjusting, so the date is displayed in the correct order (DMY vs MDY).

      • Steve Hernou's avatar
        Steve Hernou
        Iron Contributor
        Mar 05, 2020
        I realise this post if a year old but just wanted to confirm that, after we changed the default time zone in SPO admin center, newly provisioned user accounts have their OneDrive in that time zone (GMT+1 for us).