How to change Regional Settings on Terminal Services?

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I have a single domain running Windows 2003 Small Business Server R2 SP2.
Within the domain I have a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 running Terminal Services. I
placed the TS in a seperate OU and created a loopback gpo.

How do I go about changing the regional setting for date to be International
Date Format (yyy/mm/dd) for everything on the TS? Loging in as the remote
Administrator I can make the change but that only affects my Admin profile.
I noticed in 'advanced' that I can apply the change to the Default Users as
well (so I did). But that doesn't seem to have any affect on existing domain
users who RDC to the TS.

Must I be physically located at the TS console to make a system-wide change?
Or can I do it in a local or loopback GPO?

Thanks.

.... rick
 
Re: How to change Regional Settings on Terminal Services?

You have to configure these settings during installation of Windows
to set them for all new users.
The only thing you can do after installation of the OS is what you
have done already: change the settings for yourself and the Default
User profile.

But this will not affect users with an existing profile, because
the old settings have now become part of their personal profile and
are not changed by any changes you make on the server.

This is explained here:

924852 - How the "Regional and Language Options" settings in
Windows Server 2003 are applied
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924852

So the only solution is that every user changes his/her regional
settings in the TS session, or maybe that you try to figure out
which registry keys store the settings and import them in the user
profile in a login script.
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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"Rick" <noway@notme.com> wrote on 25 jan 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> I have a single domain running Windows 2003 Small Business
> Server R2 SP2. Within the domain I have a Windows 2003 R2 SP2
> running Terminal Services. I placed the TS in a seperate OU and
> created a loopback gpo.
>
> How do I go about changing the regional setting for date to be
> International Date Format (yyy/mm/dd) for everything on the TS?
> Loging in as the remote Administrator I can make the change but
> that only affects my Admin profile. I noticed in 'advanced' that
> I can apply the change to the Default Users as well (so I did).
> But that doesn't seem to have any affect on existing domain
> users who RDC to the TS.
>
> Must I be physically located at the TS console to make a
> system-wide change? Or can I do it in a local or loopback GPO?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ... rick
 
Re: How to change Regional Settings on Terminal Services?

Thank you very much, Vera. I will simply delete their local profiles and
then they will create a new one when they logon. I don't allow them access
to the control panels so they can't change regional settings.

... rick
 
Re: How to change Regional Settings on Terminal Services?

Yes, that's one way to achieve what you want.
Note that if you have disabled access to the control panel through a
Group Policy, you can enable individual control panel applets.

For an example, check this:

How can I allow my left-handed users to configure their mouse buttons
properly?
http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_user_issues.htm#mouse_control

_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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"Rick" <noway@notme.com> wrote on 27 jan 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Thank you very much, Vera. I will simply delete their local
> profiles and then they will create a new one when they logon. I
> don't allow them access to the control panels so they can't
> change regional settings.
>
> .. rick
 
Re: How to change Regional Settings on Terminal Services?

Merci Vera. I have enabled the intl.cpl as per your example. Just what I
needed.

.... rick
 
Re: How to change Regional Settings on Terminal Services?

OK, good! Yes, that's a cool little trick, isn't it? I remember how
exited I was when I first read about the possibility to allow some
control panel applets, but not all.

_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___

"Rick" <noway@notme.com> wrote on 28 jan 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Merci Vera. I have enabled the intl.cpl as per your example.
> Just what I needed.
>
> ... rick
 
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