Download preferred language via PowerShell

Question

I have a number of Windows 10 20H2 computers that have a preferred language set to en-IE, but because the language pack is not downloaded the Windows Display language is set to the default of en-US. If I set the WinHTTP proxy and download the en-IE pack manually then I can set the display language, but I'm looking to do this via group policy and/or a PowerShell script.

Are there any commands to force a download of the language pack via PowerShell? Or is there any way to do this via GPO?

Answer 1

Hello @DPFY , welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform.

According to the article below it should be possible, can you have a look?:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/17467cb9-d6e8-4753-8d28-91eeeca8dca1/addlanguage-pack-with-powershell?forum=win10itprosetup

I hope this helps!

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Answer 2

That won't work because the newer builds of Windows 10 don't use CAB files anymore and even if they did there is no CAB for en-IE.

Answer 3

Hello @DPFY

Yes you can programmatically configure the package installation through DISM command. In this case, you will need to download the .CAB file that contains the language pack, store it in a shared location for the domain computers, such as SYSVOL and then configure a Run Once script as:

DISM /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:\UNCFQDN\SYSVOL\LP\lp_xxxxxxxx.cab

Once the process is finished the language pack would be added and the environment respond correctly with the change.

Hope this helps with your query,

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Answer 4

It's almost like you didn't look at my last reply...so again...that won't work because the newer builds of Windows 10 don't use CAB files anymore and even if they did there is no CAB for en-IE.