community.windows.win_region module – Set the region and format settings

Note

This module is part of the community.windows collection (version 1.11.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_region.

Synopsis

  • Set the location settings of a Windows Server.

  • Set the format settings of a Windows Server.

  • Set the unicode language settings of a Windows Server.

  • Copy across these settings to the default profile.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

copy_settings

boolean

This will copy the current format and location values to new user profiles and the welcome screen. This will only run if location, format or unicode_language has resulted in a change. If this process runs then it will always result in a change.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

format

string

The language format to set for the current user, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo.aspx for a list of culture names to use.

This needs to be set if location or unicode_language is not set.

location

string

The location to set for the current user, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd374073.aspx for a list of GeoIDs you can use and what location it relates to.

This needs to be set if format or unicode_language is not set.

unicode_language

string

The unicode language format to set for all users, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo.aspx for a list of culture names to use.

This needs to be set if location or format is not set. After setting this value a reboot is required for it to take effect.

See Also

See also

community.windows.win_timezone

Sets Windows machine timezone.

Examples

- name: Set the region format to English United States
  community.windows.win_region:
    format: en-US

- name: Set the region format to English Australia and copy settings to new profiles
  community.windows.win_region:
    format: en-AU
    copy_settings: yes

- name: Set the location to United States
  community.windows.win_region:
    location: 244

# Reboot when region settings change
- name: Set the unicode language to English Great Britain, reboot if required
  community.windows.win_region:
    unicode_language: en-GB
  register: result

- ansible.windows.win_reboot:
  when: result.restart_required

# Reboot when format, location or unicode has changed
- name: Set format, location and unicode to English Australia and copy settings, reboot if required
  community.windows.win_region:
    location: 12
    format: en-AU
    unicode_language: en-AU
  register: result

- ansible.windows.win_reboot:
  when: result.restart_required

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

restart_required

boolean

Whether a reboot is required for the change to take effect.

Returned: success

Sample: true

Authors

  • Jordan Borean (@jborean93)