I have been involved in many Intune Autopilot deployments where we have technicians who complete the pre-deploy on computers from HP and Dell before delivery. This has worked well for many years, but lately, we have received complaints from users because the computer arrives with the wrong OS/Display language.

I am aware of the settings for region and keyboard I deployment profiles. I also know how to change the language with LIP in Win10 and PowerShell in Win11.

What we have discovered now but not yet verified is the following: A computer from, for example, HP is shipped from the factory with multiple languages of the OS, which comes up as a question BEFORE the normal first screen in OOBE for region and keyboard, and if you choose Swedish in our case, the computer’s language becomes Swedish after pre-deploy.

What we have noticed now is that if you connect a network cable before starting the computer, the language choice in the OS never shows up; it instead jumps directly to region and keyboard and has chosen English as the OS language. It doesn’t matter if you run pre-deploy or user driven deploy the display language choice are skipped and defaults to English.

To get the language choice back, you must run restore with F11, i.e., the manufacturer’s image, and then restart pre-deploy without the network cable connected  until you have pressed Win 5 times.

Yes,i know it is possible to change it afterwards with PowerShell in this case for Windows 11, but it takes time.

Has anyone else noticed the same effect with multi-language, pre-deploy, and network cable?

Or have i missed a major change in Intune or Windows?

​I have been involved in many Intune Autopilot deployments where we have technicians who complete the pre-deploy on computers from HP and Dell before delivery. This has worked well for many years, but lately, we have received complaints from users because the computer arrives with the wrong OS/Display language.  I am aware of the settings for region and keyboard I deployment profiles. I also know how to change the language with LIP in Win10 and PowerShell in Win11.  What we have discovered now but not yet verified is the following: A computer from, for example, HP is shipped from the factory with multiple languages of the OS, which comes up as a question BEFORE the normal first screen in OOBE for region and keyboard, and if you choose Swedish in our case, the computer’s language becomes Swedish after pre-deploy.  What we have noticed now is that if you connect a network cable before starting the computer, the language choice in the OS never shows up; it instead jumps directly to region and keyboard and has chosen English as the OS language. It doesn’t matter if you run pre-deploy or user driven deploy the display language choice are skipped and defaults to English. To get the language choice back, you must run restore with F11, i.e., the manufacturer’s image, and then restart pre-deploy without the network cable connected  until you have pressed Win 5 times.  Yes,i know it is possible to change it afterwards with PowerShell in this case for Windows 11, but it takes time.  Has anyone else noticed the same effect with multi-language, pre-deploy, and network cable? Or have i missed a major change in Intune or Windows?  Read More

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