Select the product you need help with

Regional settings default to English when deploying a virtual machine using a template on System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager

Article ID: 2709539 - View products that this article applies to.

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 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

· Virtual machines that are created using this template are configured to use the en-US regional settings.

Back to the top | Give Feedback

Cause

Deploying virtual machines using this scenario will override the guest OS language setting with en-US by default.

Back to the top | Give Feedback

Resolution

There are two possible workarounds for this issue

Option 1

1. Launch the VMM Console.

2. Click on the Settings option.

3. Click on 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 (e.g. cy-GB) will vary based on the language being used.

Option 2

Create an unattend.xml with the specific locale settings required. Below is a sample unattand.xml 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>

Please refer to the following sites for the regional settings that should be used for each language:

Language Pack Default Values: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766191(v=ws.10).aspx

(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766191(v=ws.10).aspx)

Default Input Locales: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766503(v=ws.10).aspx

(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766503(v=ws.10).aspx)

Back to the top | Give Feedback

More information

Scripts used during MMS 2012 PowerShell session: http://blogs.technet.com/b/hectorl/archive/2012/04/16/fi-b322-scripts-used-during-mms-2012-powershell-session.aspx

(http://blogs.technet.com/b/hectorl/archive/2012/04/16/fi-b322-scripts-used-during-mms-2012-powershell-session.aspx)

Back to the top | Give Feedback

Note This is a "FAST PUBLISH" article created directly from within the Microsoft support organization. The information contained herein is provided as-is in response to emerging issues. As a result of the speed in making it available, the materials may include typographical errors and may be revised at any time without notice. See Terms of Use

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151500)

for other considerations.

Back to the top | Give Feedback