How to remotely deploy a language pack to a Windows 2003 Server

Posted on November 6th, 2008

If you want to remotely deploy a language pack to a Windows 2003 server it is important to do a bit of research first.

First you will need the language Group ID which can be found here: Configuring and Using International Features of Windows

Language Group	ID	Supported Locales
Western Europe and United States	1	Afrikaans Basque Catalan Danish Dutch_Standard Dutch_Belgian English_United_States English_United_Kingdom English_Australian English_Canadian English_New_Zealand English_Irish English_South_Africa English_Jamaica English_Caribbean English_Belize English_trinidad English_Zimbabwe English_Philippines Faeroese Finnish French_Standard French_Belgian French_Canadian French_Swiss French_Luxembourg French_Monaco German_Standard German_Swiss German_Austrian German_Luxembourg German_Liechtenstein Icelandic Indonesian Italian_Standard Italian_Swiss Malay_Malaysia Malay_Brunei_Darussalam Norwegian_Bokmal Norwegian_Nynorsk Portuguese_Brazilian Portuguese_Standard Spanish_traditional_Sort Spanish_Mexican Spanish_Modern_Sort Spanish_Guatemala Spanish_Costa_Rica Spanish_Panama Spanish_Dominican_Republic Spanish_Venezuela Spanish_Colombia Spanish_Peru Spanish_Argentina Spanish_Ecuador Spanish_Chile Spanish_Uruguay Spanish_Paraguay Spanish_Bolivia Spanish_El_Salvador Spanish_Honduras Spanish_Nicaragua Spanish_Puerto_Rico Swahili Swedish Swedish_Finland
Central Europe	2	Albanian Croatian Czech Hungarian Polish Romanian Serbian_Latin Slovak Slovenian
Baltic	3	Estonian Latvian Lithuanian
Greek	4	Greek
Cyrillic	5	Azeri_Cyrillic Belarusian Bulgarian Kazakh Macedonian Russian Serbian_Cyrillic Tatar Ukrainian Uzbek_Cyrillic
Turkic	6	Azeri_Latin Turkish Uzbek_Latin
Japanese	7	Japanese
Korean	8	Korean
Traditional Chinese	9	Chinese_Taiwan Chinese_Hong_Kong Chinese_Macau
Simplified Chinese	10	Chinese_PRC Chinese_Singapore
Thai	11	Thai
Hebrew	12	Hebrew
Arabic	13	Arabic_Saudi_Arabia Arabic_Iraq Arabic_Egypt Arabic_Libya Arabic_Algeria Arabic_Morocco Arabic_Tunisia Arabic_Oman Arabic_Yemen Arabic_Syria Arabic_Jordan Arabic_Lebanon Arabic_Kuwait Arabic_UAE Arabic_Bahrain Arabic_Qatar Farsi Urdu
Vietnamese	14	Vietnamese
Indic	15	Hindi Konkani Marathi Sanskrit Tamil
Georgian	16	Georgian
Armenian	17	Armenian

You will also need the:

SystemLocale

UserLocale

InputLocale

I couldhn’t find a neat list of all of these and discovered from a variety of searches for the language pack I needed. However, they were all the same!

Creation of regopts.txt file

The information above can be used to create the regopts.txt file (in this case for Japanese)

[RegionalSettings]
LanguageGroup=7
SystemLocale=0411
UserLocale=0411
InputLocale=0411:e0010411

Silent install of language pack

rundll32.exe shell32,Control_RunDLL intl.cpl,,/f:”d:\temp\regopts.txt”

Change the Install paths

The silent install relies on the source files for the Windows CD being correct, otherwise it will find a missing file and prompt. So to pre-populate these fileds first change the following registry locations:

objWshShell.RegWrite “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\SourcePath”, “\\server\sourcefiles”, “REG_SZ”
objWshShell.RegWrite “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\ServicePackSourcePath”, “\\server\sourcefiles”, “REG_SZ”
objWshShell.RegWrite “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SourcePath”, “\\server\sourcefiles\i386″, “REG_SZ”

*Note, the last entry requires the \i386 bit.

Order

Change install locations

silent install script

reboot

Links:

A good guide can be found here: MSFN

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