The only time you can set the system locale is when installing the OS – changes after that can cause issues.

 

I suspect Notes is complaining that the system locale is different than when it was installed.  That’s an application issue – applications need to be able to handle this properly (like Office can J).

 

We originally added the logic for setting both to the same value because we didn’t have two variables for different values – there was only one value, UserLocale, carried forward from XP.  So it was easier (although probably not as obvious or discoverable) to map both UserLocale and SystemLocale to the same UserLocale variable.

 

-Michael

 

thanks! I hoped you would jump in :)
But why is the system locale changed?

I mean when doing it manually in the regional GUI, it wouldn't, so why change it then?


If I remember correctly, I've read that changing the system-locale is a bad thing and that it isn't supported to have different system locales. It was actually mentioned for SMS 2003 afaik.

And other products, like Lotus Notes 8.5 (ARGH), actually complain.
I noticed the behavior because the notes guy mentioned problems when installing notes.

-roland

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It is normal behavior – maybe not entirely what you want, but that’s the way it’s implemented.  The UserLocale variable is used to set both the UserLocale and SystemLocale in unattend.xml.
 
If you want to change this, you can edit the ZTIConfigure.xml file.  It currently specifies this:
 
                <mapping id="UserLocale" type="xml">
                                <xpath><![CDATA[//settings[@pass="specialize"]/component[@name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core"]/SystemLocale]]></xpath>
                                <xpath><![CDATA[//settings[@pass="oobeSystem"]/component[@name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core"]/SystemLocale]]></xpath>
                                <xpath><![CDATA[//settings[@pass="specialize"]/component[@name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core"]/UserLocale]]></xpath>
                                <xpath><![CDATA[//settings[@pass="oobeSystem"]/component[@name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core"]/UserLocale]]></xpath>
                </mapping>
 
Change it to instead specify this:
 
                <mapping id="UserLocale" type="xml">
                                <xpath><![CDATA[//settings[@pass="specialize"]/component[@name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core"]/UserLocale]]></xpath>
                                <xpath><![CDATA[//settings[@pass="oobeSystem"]/component[@name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core"]/UserLocale]]></xpath>
                </mapping>
 
Out of curiosity, why do you want the values to be different?
 
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bump, no one?

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Is it normal behavior that when I set the "UserLocale" -variable using cs.ini and an userexit-script to something else the the US-EN, that the system-local is also changed to that value?

How can I avoid that?

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