I believe he has terminal services, and his users log in via rdp through mstsc. I think he means that there is a terminal server running, right ny1508?
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Browse All TopicsIs it possible for the user's local regional settings to be used as the regional setting of their RDP session? For example;a user from the UK would see their local date format of dd-mm-yy where currently they see the date server date format (mm/dd/yyyy) in the RDP session (Windows Server 2008). While a user from the US would still see the date format of mm/dd/yyyy in their RDP session.
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The Terminal Services Protocol isn't designed to send regional settings through the connection, so the best you could do, is (assuming you know the users locale in advance) write a script that automatically runs when a user logs in.
The Registry settings are located in (per-user):
HKEY_CURRENT_US
The first time that a user uses a Remote Desktop Connection to log on to a server that has Terminal Server enabled, a new profile is created. The new profile inherits the Regional and Language Options settings from the default user profile. The profile may be local to the terminal server or may reside on a network share. However, the Default input language setting is obtained from the client computer that initiated the Remote Desktop Connection.
For more information about how to obtain the default user profile from the network, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://technet2.microsoft.
To change the default behavior to obtain the Default input language setting from the default user profile, you must set a registry entry value on the terminal server. To do this, follow these steps:
1. On the terminal server, click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry information:
Value name: IgnoreRemoteKeyboardLayout
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 1
When the IgnoreRemoteKeyboardLayout
Note This registry entry may not work if you are not running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. For more information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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by: aktharchowdhuryPosted on 2009-11-03 at 09:27:55ID: 25731304
I don't believe remote desktop is designed to handle that.
Terminal Services will handle that.