VMware: Setting Regional settings for a template

An annoying thing while deploying a template in VirtualCenter is the fact that the regional settings are always defaulted to English-US. VirtualCenter uses the following files to run a sysprep on a template machine:
1) VMware VirtualCenter 2.0\scripts\gensysprepinf.vbs
2) VMware VirtualCenter 2.0\scripts\autoprep.wsf

These are the steps to follow (this example is for Belgium):

• Make a backup of both files
• Decrypt the files mentioned above. By default, they are encrypted
• Edit gensysprepinf.vbs
• find the following string:
  if mProductID <> "" then
  outStr = outStr _
  & " ProductID=" & mProductID & vbCrLf
  end if
• add the following part AFTER the string just mentioned:
  outStr = outStr _
  &vbCrLf _
  &"[RegionalSettings]" & vbCrLf _
  &amp;" LanguageGroup=1" & vbCrLf _
  &" SystemLocale=00000813" & vbCrLf _
  &" UserLocale=00000813" & vbCrLf _
  &" InputLocale=0813:00000813" & vbCrLf
• Save it in the appropriate directory (VMware VirtualCenter 2.0\scripts\gensysprepinf.vbs)


• Edit autoprep.wsf


• Find the string <script language="VBScript.Encode" src="gensysprepinf.vbs">
• Alter the string to <script language="VBScript" src="gensysprepinf.vbs">
• Save the file in the appropriate directory (VMware VirtualCenter 2.0\scripts\autoprep.wsf)
• Done

You can generate your own country codes by downloading the sysprep tools from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads and running setupmgr.exe