- Microsoft .NET Framework Language Pack (Offline Installer) for Windows
In that post I broke down the necessary bits in order to understand how to localise a Windows system. I took a couple of cheap shots at Microsoft by complaining how annoying the process is, but ended on a high note because they came through with huge improvements to the process in Windows 10 onwards.
Here is the dism. Installed language s : en-US Type: fully localized language. We can see from the above output, this is the new distinction of user and system default languages on a system. This saves from needing multiple Apply Windows Settings steps. So what? This caused a problem when admins tried to later IPU or deploy feature updates to their Windows 10 devices in the language that was of the install media they used in their task sequences in this scenario, English en-us.
All we need is to specify the language we want in the Apply Windows Settings step. And more importantly, we can do so without worrying about it coming back to bite us later when you upgrade the system to a newer version of Windows They solved the problem by not giving us any special instructions to follow. We literally no longer need to do anything special in our builds, or arguably any different compared to the way we should have been doing in all along, and it just works.
Note: yes you will be downloading content for , even though we are building a 20H2 task seqeuence. It looks like this naming convention is relevant to a known issue with Windows 10 :. When servicing a Windows image with a cumulative monthly security update or public preview, the corresponding LXP ISO for that update needs to be downloaded and installed for the LXPs to work correctly.
If this step is skipped, then the user may experience unexpected language fallback e. I did write another blog post which covers how to use this module in a little more detail if you need it.
Now you should have a nice folder structure ready for you to create your Packages with in ConfigMgr. One last thing we want to take care of are your collections. If you you prefer, you can of course use your own conditions in your task sequence and have multiple Apply Windows Settings steps if you prefer, and for each of those Apply Windows Settings steps you would choose the language options from each dropdown.
Download Exported Task Sequence. Or to perhaps incorporate it into your own existing task sequence. You will need to set the option to ignore dependencies , simply because the PackageID references in the task sequence would not resolve in your environment.
After running the task sequence, the result on the device is that it will have a system default language of en-us, and a user default language of either fr-fr or de-de. This new change to Windows was introduced in Windows 10 , and the latest version of Windows is 20H2. To upgrade to 20H2, we can only use the enablement package. I hope you found my content on localising Windows 10 helpful. Equally, if any of this helped, still let me know. Where is your Visual Studio Subscriptions screenshot pointing to?
Thanks for the kind words Ken! Sorry, I think I asked the question incorrectly. Thanks so much for the reply! Would be good if you did find it, and was able to share some screenshots I could include in this post — it could help others.
I will let you know what I find out. Excellent article! Thank you for posting this and your previous guidance. Both have been a huge time saver for us. If I missed the announcement, it was not for lack of trying. Decoder ring for the 3 character string for the LPX — the numerical characters are month of release. Based on this linked article, the LXP may be rolled back after a monthly update. Not about live systems receiving Windows updates on a monthly basis.
I hope this helps. Thank you very very very much! I see them now! Excellent suggestion! I see 9B, 9C, 10C etc. How do I know which one? This is after a few monthly updates. I read you article with and now this updated with 20H2. Both of them are really nice and help me understend more the entire process.
Anyway, I am missing here one important think. In you did installation and also you have to apply LPX with local user. Here in this article you do not do that anymore. Hey Pavel! Hope this helps. Hi, thanks for the update. I just have an issue, that all the Windows Store Apps and the Store is still english.
Paint is localized correctly though. Any idea why? Thank you. Hey Dieter, what does it look like after you kick off all available updates from the Microsoft Store? Well, we have the store disabled via GPO, so I cannot actually update in the store. Yes I am installing LXP too. Win 10 Enterprise ISO.
Hi Dieter, that will be your problem. Updating these apps improves localisation after OSD, too. I talk about this in my other blog post which I linked in this post, definitely give it a read. It might explain it more clearly than I just have now. Hey Adam, thanks for the quick reply.
No worries, glad I can help. I highly recommend you revisit any objections you have with the Store. Hey Dieter. To me, localisation is absolutely ideal there because the intention here is to completely translate the entire system to another language, away from the base language from the install media.
Hi Adam, Thanks for the great write-up. I have a lot of systems that I am looking to upgrade to 20H2 worldwide and was trying to figure all of this out. So you are going from a bare metal type install. What about in place upgrades? I am using a TS to deploy the upgrade for customization options. Is there a way to update the languages during IPU? UUP is the technology for Microsoft that brings the benefit of preserving language content through upgrades.
So trust me when I say this, that it really is much more involved and you really should consider WUfB — it just works. Thanks for the info Adam. So I dont see us being able to move to WUfB anytime soon. I am a team of 1 right now trying to clean up from a previous admin. I then extracted your steps for languages from your sample TS, converted the commands to PoSh, and deployed a test machine.
I stuck with an easy one to start with en-GB so I can still read it. The localization from what I can see still seemed to be intact. Do you think this is working as expected, or am I missing something? I am going to find someone to help me test some other languages tomorrow, but wanted to see if I am completely off with all of this.
The only thing I can think of that you might run in to: you might see your devices not display the intended language after the IPU task sequence, despite installing all of the language content. In my previous hacky attempts I used the RunOnce registry keys under HKCU to run some code to do this, in hindsight maybe I should have just used a scheduled task or something — might have been easier.
I for sure know the feeling of being the only one and cleaning up mess. Thank you very much Adam for putting this together in a way that so easy to understand and follow. In my case I added fr-CA and hoping to see. What do you see on your computer that has different language applied? I can confirmed that with Windows 10 , it shows up with French language for all the local group name.
Hey Bob, someone has mentioned this to me before, specifically about fr-CA. The issue with that is it makes the idea of using only one base language en-US in your task sequence impossible.
Hey Bob, I thought I would build a VM in the same way you said you did, just to see what you described.
Language pack download for windows 10. Language packs and language interface packs are available for Windows 10 Version 1511
Get steps for how to install a language pack in Windows Select Download from the Download language pack option. After the language pack is installed. Starting with Windows 11, five of the LIP languages (ca-ES, eu-ES, gl-ES, id-ID, vi-VN) are available as both cab packages. Language/.
