Regional settings default to English when deploying a virtual machine using a template
This article helps you fix an issue in which the regional settings are default to English when deploying a virtual machine by using a template in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
Original product version: System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
Original KB number: 2709539
Symptoms
Consider the following scenario:
- A virtual machine is configured to use regional settings other than en-US (example: ja-JP or fr-FR).
- A VM template is created from this virtual machine using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager or System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1).
In this scenario, virtual machines that are created using this template are configured to use the en-US regional settings.
Cause
Deploying virtual machines using this scenario will override the guest operating system language setting with en-US by default.
Resolution 1
Launch the VMM console.
Select the Settings option.
Select PowerShell and execute the commands below on the respective template.
$template = Get-SCVMtemplate | where {$_.Name -eq "Template_Name"} $settings = $template.UnattendSettings; $settings.add("oobeSystem/> Microsoft-Windows-International-Core/UserLocale","cy-GB"); $settings.add("oobeSystem/Microsoft-Windows-International-Core/SystemLocale","cy-GB"); $settings.add("oobeSystem/Microsoft-Windows-International-Core/UILanguage","cy-GB"); $settings.add("oobeSystem/Microsoft-Windows-International-Core/InputLocale","0452:00000452"); Set-SCVMTemplate -VMTemplate $template -UnattendSettings $settings
Note
For the steps above, the regional settings (such as cy-GB) will vary based on the language being used.
Resolution 2
Create an unattend.xml with the specific locale settings required. Below is a sample unattand.xml file set to en-us but you can replace the en-us entries with the language code of your choice.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
<settings pass="oobeSystem">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<InputLocale>en-us</InputLocale>
<SystemLocale>en-us</SystemLocale>
<UILanguage>en-us</UILanguage>
<UILanguageFallback>en-us</UILanguageFallback>
<UserLocale>en-us</UserLocale>
</component>
</settings>
<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:c:/install.wim#Windows Server 2012 SERVERDATACENTER" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>
Refer to the following sites for the regional settings that should be used for each language:
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