Copy the below few lines to a notepad and name the file keyboard.adm.
Note: You may need to renter the speech marks once copied to notepad
Set ‘VALUEON’ to preferred language code. See Language key list below.
Create a new policy named keyboard and add the ADM file.
CLASS USER
CATEGORY “Custom Settings”
CATEGORY “Keyboard Layout”
POLICY “Set UK Keyboard Layout”
KEYNAME “Keyboard Layout\Preload”
VALUENAME 1
VALUEON 00000809
VALUEOFF “”
END POLICY ;Set UK Keyboard Layout
END CATEGORY ;Keyboard Layout
END CATEGORY ;Custom Settings
Language Key
The Part which says VALUEON:
00000402 Bulgarian
0000041a Croatian
00000405 Czech
00000406 Danish
00000413 Dutch (Standard)
00000813 Dutch (Belgian)
00000409 English (United States)
00000809 English (United Kingdom)
00001009 English (Canadian)
00001409 English (New Zealand)
00000c09 English (Australian)
0000040b Finnish
0000040c French (Standard)
0000080c French (Belgian)
0000100c French (Swiss)
00000c0c French (Canadian)
00000407 German (Standard)
00000807 German (Swiss)
00000c07 German (Austrian)
00000408 Greek
0000040e Hungarian
0000040f Icelandic
00001809 English (Irish)
00000410 Italian (Standard)
00000810 Italian (Swiss)
00000414 Norwegian (Bokmal)
00000814 Norwegian (Nynorsk)
00000415 Polish
00000816 Portuguese (Standard)
00000416 Portuguese (Brazilian)
00000418 Romanian
00000419 Russian
0000041b Slovak
00000424 Slovenian
0000080a Spanish (Mexican)
0000040a Spanish (Traditional Sort)
00000c0a Spanish (Modern Sort)
0000041d Swedish
0000041f Turkish
Instructions on how to add policy and activate
1) Save the file to C:Windows\inf on the server
2) Create and link a new group policy. Name the policy something suitable such as Keyboard Layout from US to UK
3) Right click and edit the keyboard layout group policy
4) Expand User Configuration
5) Right click Administrative Templates and choose add template
6) Select the keyboard.adm by browsing to Windows template and click OK until you are returned to the Group Policy Editor window
7) Click view from the toolbar
8.) Click filtering
9) Untick the bottom two boxes
10) Browse to User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Custom Settings and then double click Set UK Keyboard Layout
11) Enable the policy setting and click OK
Done
Thankyou very much. Just what I was after. Cheers pal
Perfect, just what I was looking for, thanks 🙂
This is great! Although there is a couple languages missing from the list- is there a way to do this in Arabic?