Windows 10 deployment language prompt

[cycrow99]

Hi all,

 

First post but i have used your site heavily for hints and tips.

 

I am part of a larger company who controls our SCCM setup. We have a child site and are limited to what we can do. They publish the boot images and task sequences, we get to tweak them. They're dutch so obviously, being English we need to change the languages to UK.

Were having real issues with Windows 10. We have used MDT to create customsettings.ini and unttend.xml These help to set the language to UK and the keyboard, that's all. However after our deployments everything is US and halfway through we have to manually set the language to UK.

 

What are we doing wrong. Can somebody please tell me how we should sue MDT to create these files correctly.

 

Regards

 

Andy

[BB24]

Andy,

 

What is the base image - is it based on English or another language? You may have to have two different images depending on the languages. For example, my company supports 4 different languages in our Win 10 build (English, Chinese Trad, Chinese Simp and Japanese). For Japanese we need to build a separate image, but it is built upon from the English build. We use a script to modify it to change it into Japanese. However we are not using MDT exclusively, so this may not apply.

 

Extract of powershell script:

#This script will take a captured WIM file (US English) and add the Japan system Locales. Resulting in a Japan image for OSD

 

DISM /Mount-Image /ImageFile:$Path0\$Image /Index:1 /MountDir:$Path3

dism.exe /image:$Path3 /set-UILang:ja-JP /set-SysLocale:ja-JP /set-UserLocale:ja-JP /set-LayeredDriver:6 /set-AllIntl:ja-JP

dism.exe /image:$Path3 /cleanup-image /checkhealth

Dism /unmount-image /MountDir:$Path3 /Commit

 

 

For our Chinese, we run a couple of powershell scripts to change the display language during the task sequence (nothing more than registry key settings).

 

 

TS Step 1 - c:\windows\system32\cmd /c "c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe .\ChangeUILanguage_zh-TW.ps1"

(Extract of ChangeUILanguage_zh-TW.ps1)

Rename-Item -Path HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages\zh-TW -NewName zh-TW-old -Force
Rename-Item -Path HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages\en-US -NewName zh-TW -Force
Set-Location HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages\zh-TW
New-ItemProperty -Name DefaultFallback -PropertyType string -Path HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages\zh-TW -Value "en-US" -Force

 

TS Step 2 - Restart computer

 

TS Step 3 - c:\windows\system32\cmd /c "c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe .\ChangeUILanguage_en-US.ps1"

(Extract of ChangeUILanguage_zh-TW.ps1)

Set-Location HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages
Remove-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages\zh-TW -Name "DefaultFallback" -Force
Rename-Item HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages\zh-TW -NewName en-US -Force
Rename-Item HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages\zh-TW-old -NewName zh-TW
New-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages\zh-TW -Name "DefaultFallback" -PropertyType string -Value "en-US" -Force
New-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages\zh-TW -Name "en-US" -PropertyType MultiString -Force