Intune auto pilot international settings

[RahamimL]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to achieve the following for new computers in autopilot:

1. Set time zone to my time zone
2. Set system locale, culture and windows home location to my country
3. Set a language list to use en-US and my country's language
4. Make sure that my country language is installed on the compute

In MECM this is the Apply windows settings which looks like this:

The end result I'm looking for is this:

I searched the web and also found the Copy-UserInternationalSettingsToSystem, but this is for windows 11... We are still deploying windows 10.

I found and tested multiple options such as deploying the LXP and using several powershell commands to apply what I need but it doesn't exactly work.

This is my autopilot profile:

Is there a way to use some unattended file or any other way to configure the operating system to our international settings?

Rahamim.

[#2]

Hi

Normally I would say to create a powershell script with the additional language cab in it. And configure all settings you want in that powershell script. as example

DISM /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath: .\lp.cab
Set-WinUILanguageOverride <xx-xx> (where xx-xx is your language culture)

And convert it to a win32 app and deploy it as an required app during autopilot esp?

Could you show us what you have tried until know?

[#3]

Thanks for the reply,
I just found found the site Michael Niehus' website https://oofhours.com/ and realized I only did half of what AutoPilot has to offer. I found out I didn't use the enrollment status page . I'm trying to work with it now to see if that will do what I'm looking for.
Also, can someone tell me the keyboard shortcut to open cmd in ESP?

[#4]

Hi, Shift + f10... but that one needs to be removed 😛
https://call4cloud.nl/2022/01/the-oobe-massacre-the-beginning-of-shift-f10/
I guess also did some blogs about autopilot and some tpm stuff..

[#5]

Thanks for the help will update on this as soon as I will have results.

[#6]

I was able to run trials on a VM and I can't get this to work.

I created a win32 app deployed to system with the following script:

$Hebrew = Get-WindowsCapability -online -Name lang*he* | Where-Object displayname -Match "hebrew"
foreach($h in $Hebrew){if($h.State -ne "Installed"){Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Verbose -Name $h.name}}
Set-WinSystemLocale -SystemLocale he-IL
Set-Culture -CultureInfo he-IL
Set-WinHomeLocation -GeoId 117
Set-WinUserLanguageList en-US,he-IL -Force
$XMLfile = @"
<gs:GlobalizationServices xmlns:gs="urn:longhornGlobalizationUnattend">

<!-- user list -->
<gs:UserList>
<gs:User UserID="Current" CopySettingsToDefaultUserAcct="true" CopySettingsToSystemAcct="true"/>
</gs:UserList>

<!-- system locale -->
<gs:SystemLocale Name="he-IL"/>

<!-- input preferences -->
<gs:InputPreferences>
<gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="0409:00000409"/>
<gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="040D:0000040D"/>
<!--gs:InputLanguageID Action="remove" ID="0409:00000409"/-->
</gs:InputPreferences>

</gs:GlobalizationServices>
"@
New-Item -Path $env:TEMP -Name "intlcfg.xml" -Value $XMLfile -Force -Verbose
$XMLPath = Join-Path $env:Temp -ChildPath "intlcfg.xml"
& $env:windir\System32\control.exe "intl.cpl,,/f:`"$XMLPath`""
Start-Sleep 5
& $env:windir\System32\control.exe "intl.cpl,,/f:`"$XMLPath`""
Get-Item -Path (Join-Path $env:TEMP -ChildPath "intlcfg.xml") | Remove-Item -Verbose

If I run this manually in an OOBE fresh installation, I get the expected result. but when I try it during autopilot the settings don't copy.

Rahamim.

[#7]

Hi.. Is the XML file even created or just not executed

[#8]

@Rudy_Ooms_MVP as far as I see in Intune the application is configured correctly. This is the detection script:

try{
$iCountry = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Control Panel\International' -Name iCountry -ErrorAction Stop).iCountry
$Locale = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Control Panel\International' -Name Locale -ErrorAction Stop).Locale
$iCurrDigits = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Control Panel\International' -Name iCurrDigits -ErrorAction Stop).iCurrDigits
$iCurrency = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Control Panel\International' -Name iCurrency -ErrorAction Stop).iCurrency
$iLZero = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Control Panel\International' -Name iLZero -ErrorAction Stop).iLZero
if($iCountry -eq 972 -and `
$Locale -eq '0000040D' -and `
$iCurrDigits -eq 2 -and `
$iCurrency -eq 2 -and `
$iLZero -eq 1){
Write-Output "International configurations were set correctly"
exit 0
}
}catch{
$ErrorMessage = $_.Exception.Message
Write-Error $ErrorMessage
exit 1
}

If this detection script is wrong I'll be happy to know what to change. As I said, this works manually in OOBE.

[#9 · Accepted solution]

@Rudy_Ooms_MVP thanks for your help.

My xml was wrong. I ended up creating a different app with a CMD file in it and the xml inside the win32 package. I also separated the PowerShell script to add the language to a different win32 package.

For anyone requiring something similar here is my xml:

<gs:GlobalizationServices xmlns:gs="urn:longhornGlobalizationUnattend">

<gs:UserList>
<gs:User UserID="Current" CopySettingsToDefaultUserAcct="true" CopySettingsToSystemAcct="true"/>
</gs:UserList>

<!-- GeoID -->
<gs:LocationPreferences>
<gs:GeoID Value="117"/>
</gs:LocationPreferences>

<gs:MUILanguagePreferences>
<gs:MUILanguage Value="en-US"/>
<gs:MUIFallback Value="he-IL"/>
</gs:MUILanguagePreferences>

<!-- system locale -->
<gs:SystemLocale Name="he-IL"/>

<!-- input preferences -->
<gs:InputPreferences>
<gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="0409:00000409"/>
<gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="040D:0002040D"/>
</gs:InputPreferences>
<gs:UserLocale>
<gs:Locale Name="he-IL" SetAsCurrent="true" ResetAllSettings="false">
</gs:Locale>
</gs:UserLocale>
</gs:GlobalizationServices>

For detection of the application:

try{
    $DefaultHive = "microsoft.powershell.core\Registry::HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT"
    $CP = Join-Path -Path $DefaultHive -ChildPath "Control Panel\International"
    $KL = Join-Path -Path $DefaultHive -ChildPath "Keyboard Layout\Preload"
    $DHCP = Get-ItemProperty -Path $CP
    $DHKL = Get-ItemProperty -Path $KL
    if($DHCP.Locale -eq "0000040D" `
    -and $DHCP.LocaleName -eq "he-IL" `
    -and $DHCP.iCountry -eq "972" `
    -and $DHKL.1 -eq "00000409" `
    -and $DHKL.2 -eq "0000040D"){
        Write-Output "Profile international settings were copied successfully"
        exit 0
    }else{
        Write-Error "Error copying profile international settings"
        exit 1
    }
}catch{
    $ErrorMessage = $_.Exception.Message
    Write-Error $ErrorMessage
    exit 1
}

Rahamim

[#10]

does this run in system context/device? we have tried the same and it doesnt seem to apply. W11, autopilot+esp