Regional Setting - Per User

[JonMusto]

Hi All,

I have a Windows 2003 terminal server. Some users are in the UK and some in the USA, therefor they want defferent regional settings.

Is there any easy way to control this? The only way i've figured out so far is to make sure the regional setting a set correctly BEFORE I create the users, depending on which locale they are in.

Can i script something to change the registry?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,
Jonathan.

 

[tfg13]

Is the terminal server in the domain? I'm sure markdmac has a script for something like this.

 

[JonMusto]

No, sadly not...

Where can I get this script from markdmac???

thanks,
jonathan,

 

[tfg13]

Hmmm. Is there a way that you can seperate the users into "groups"? This might actually help you out with the regional settings.

I've found the registry entry that needs to be adjusted according to group membership:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\control\TimeZoneInformation

I don't know how changing the time on the machine will effect everything. For an example, if you have one user logged on from London, and another from the USA, how will this effect the overall system? Will the time "revert" back to the last logged on user? Just thinking about the various situations. Something to test though....

 

[JonMusto]

I'll give that a try thanks.

They are all in different local groups... The server time is not really important, just the date format.. I.E. Some users wan't to see dd-mm-yyyy and others want to see mm-dd-yyyy.

I thought that it might be a current_user key?

 

[tfg13]

I was assuming you wanted to change the time zone.

The settings you are looking for are indeed in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International.

The SlongDate entry is what you are looking for. Let's see if Microsoft has something to say:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/default.mspx

I didn't find anything specifically towards dates, but will keep looking.

 

[JonMusto]

Excellent... I'll see if can find anything too...
Thanks for all your help...