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Re: Sysprep and Input Languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Skalski)
Thu Jan 13 08:43:18 2011
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:42:59 -0600
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From: Tony Skalski <ajs@STOLAF.EDU>
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This is what we do. And I have to say, not including them in our build
(which we did with XP) has made a lot of folks outside of the
languages very happy.
ajs
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Doughty, Marc <marc_doughty@brown.edu> wrote:
> Greetings,
> Many Bothans died to get the input settings to actually work. The only
> thing that will work, as far as I can tell, is to get this stuff into the
> registry -after- the first boot, and before the user login. I use Group
> Policy from Server 2008 R2 (aka, RSAT). Don't listen to fearmongers, there's
> absolutely no reason to worry about using newer versions of the
> administrative tools on older versions of Active Directory; the tools are
> backwards-compatible.
> Here's a link to a picture so you can see what I mean: Using Group
> Policy to set the Keyboard Settings
>
>
> - Marc Doughty
> - Apple and Microsoft Certified
> - Open-Source Enlightened
> - Marc_Doughty@brown.edu
>
> "POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of
> principles." - Ambrose Bierce
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Pender, Anne <anpender@davidson.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I was never able to get the InputLocale stuff to work reliably either. I
>> ended up using a command line that is called from the sysprep.inf or a
>> post-imaging script, based on the “control intl.cpl” command that’s found
>> here:
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ie/goglobal/bb964650(en-us).aspx
>>
>> (The page says Vista but it works for Win 7 too.)
>>
>>
>>
>> What’s not so well documented is the actual codes you need for each
>> language, particularly the Asian languages where there are multiple IMEs to
>> choose from. This page helped:
>>
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2009/09/15/9894707.aspx
>>
>>
>>
>> Below is the text of my .xml file, which has most of the ones we wanted.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> <gs:GlobalizationServices xmlns:gs="urn:longhornGlobalizationUnattend">
>>
>> <!--User List-->
>>
>> <gs:UserList>
>>
>> <gs:User UserID="Current" CopySettingsToDefaultUserAcct="true"
>> CopySettingsToSystemAcct="true"/>
>>
>> </gs:UserList>
>>
>>
>>
>> <!--input preferences-->
>>
>> <gs:InputPreferences>
>>
>> <!--Arabic Egypt--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="0401:00000401"/>
>>
>> <!--Chinese PRC US Kbd--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add"
>> ID="0804:00000804"/>
>>
>> <!--Chinese PRC Pinyin ABC--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add"
>> ID="0804:{81D4E9C9-1D3B-41BC-9E6C-4B40BF79E35E}{FCA121D2-8C6D-41fb-B2DE-A2AD110D4820}"/>
>>
>> <!--Chinese Taiwan US Kbd--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add"
>> ID="0404:00000404"/>
>>
>> <!--French--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="040c:0000040c"/>
>>
>> <!--German--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="0407:00000407"/>
>>
>> <!--Greek--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="0408:00000408"/>
>>
>> <!--Hebrew--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="040d:0000040d"/>
>>
>> <!--Hindi--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="0439:00010439"/>
>>
>> <!--Italian--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="0410:00000410"/>
>>
>> <!--Japanese MS IME--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add"
>> ID="0411:{03B5835F-F03C-411B-9CE2-AA23E1171E36}{A76C93D9-5523-4E90-AAFA-4DB112F9AC76}"/>
>>
>> <!--Korean MS IME--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add"
>> ID="0412:{A028AE76-01B1-46C2-99C4-ACD9858AE02F}{B5FE1F02-D5F2-4445-9C03-C568F23C99A1}"/>
>>
>> <!--Portuguese--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="0816:00000816"/>
>>
>> <!--Russian--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="0419:00000419"/>
>>
>> <!--Spanish--> <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="0c0a:0000040a"/>
>>
>> </gs:InputPreferences>
>>
>>
>>
>> </gs:GlobalizationServices>
>>
>> -----
>>
>>
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>>
>>
>> -Anne
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Anne B. Pender
>> Computing Support Analyst, Student Services
>> Information Technology Services, Davidson College
>> anpender@davidson.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Rachel
>> Boutilier
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:09 AM
>> To: RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: Sysprep and Input Languages
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Is anyone using Sysprep on Windows 7 systems that have multiple input
>> languages that need to be installed? I need our lab image to have several
>> keyboards available, but even though (I think) I'm following Microsoft's
>> instructions for the InputLocale item correctly, the languages aren't there
>> after Sysprep completes. If someone has done this successfully or has
>> another working method, I'd really appreciate any advice you can offer.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Rachel
>>
>> Rachel Boutilier '06
>> Client Services Consultant
>> Macalester College ITS
>> (651)696-6507
>> rboutili@macalester.edu
>>
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