Regional setings throguh GP

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Neil

Hi All

I have a win2k server and 140 clients and I need to change
all the regional settings, like the date display and the
deciaml grouping with out having to go to each machine.
What would be the easiest way to do this through GP.

Thanks for your time

Neil
 
Hi Neil,

I believe the only way to change regional settings is by updating them in
the registry. You can use the Windows Scripting host Shell object regwrite
method to script this and apply the script through a group policy.

A good starting point for the registry values can be found here

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBA/tip0300/rh0311.htm

And to instantiate the shell object use something like to for example set
the date format to mm/dd/yy

Dim oShell
Set oShell=createobject("wscript.shell")
oShell.regwrite "HKCU\Control Panel\International\iDate","0","REG_SZ"


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Regards

Niclas Lindblom
 
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