Language (Region) Issue Autopilot/Pre-Provisioning

Question

Hi All,

I am deploying an autopilot profile that it is configured to choose Language (region) as 'OS Default'. Although i choose another language (German) during OOBE setup (different from default (English)) , it does not change when i finish autopilot process and enter to the desktop.

Any help will be appreciate.

Thank you

Answer 1

We have similar problems with Finnish language, time format is wrong and localization is still set to somewhere else. I solved this problem with Powershell script to set correct time zone and other locale settings. I believe it is more of Windows problem, not Autopilot, because same result will be if I install computer for home user. I thought this problem was only around Finnish.

Answer 2

My bad ... I should have been more specific that we are using White Glove provisioning method and I see Microsoft has addressed this issue in their documentation.

In Windows 10, version 2004 and later, if the Autopilot deployment profile Language/Region setting is not set to User Select, then OOBE will progress past the language/region/keyboard selection screens. This causes the pre-provisioning technician to arrive at the Azure AD login page, which is too late to enter pre-provisioning. This issue is fixed in Windows 11.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/autopilot/pre-provision

Anyways .. thank you for your time and suggestions. Appreciate !