Deployment and Imaging Group

Hello,

We have deployed an English Win7 Professional X64 image using GSS 3.0.  We now need to install the French language pack into the image.  Is anyone able to advise the best way to do this.  In MDT we use to use DISM to install and then bdcedit to enable but this doesnt seem to be working.

Any guidance on this would be appreciated.

Many Thanks.

Is this a sysprepped image?

You need to go back to a working setup on your master machine, install the French language pack, test, and then prepare your image for distribution as you did for your current image.

By the way - is the French language pack intended for the operating system or for MS Office in your image?

What language is your native Win 7 installation?

Basically, there is not much detail in your original posting to help determine a course of action.

If I understand this correct, you want to apply a language pack for the OS, so if this is the case, you can still achieve this in about the same way you do it with DISM.

Difference would be that you first copy it over to the clients and then dism it into the running OS. Alternatively you can also run a silent install against clients with command line switches like i.e.:

lpksetup.exe /i EN-US FR-FR /r /p  /s \\YOURDS\eXpress\LPS

This is a sysprepped image from a gold build.  French language pack is for the OS and then we have .NET in French and also IE 11 language pack to install.  Native Win 7 Professional is English.

Were looking to install the base image in English and then part 2 of the job will install the language pack, enable and then install the additonal parts.  Were testing currently but were not sure if when the answer file goes down with the core image it sets the locale etc as French but the lapguage pack isnt there until part 2.

Thanks for replies so far.

We install our language packs in our Windows 7 x64 image with the following DISM script,

REM Iterate through all folders here and use DISM to install packs online.

SET LANGPACKS=%~dp0
SET LOGFILE=C:\LOGS\Microsoft_Language_Pack.log
SET SUMMARYLOG=C:\LOGS\Microsoft_Language_Pack_Summary.log

FOR /F " usebackq" %%i IN (`dir /b "%LANGPACKS%"`) DO (
  Dism /online /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%LANGPACKS%\%%i\lp.cab" >> %LOGFILE%
)

REM Now output all the installed language packs to confirm successful installation
Dism /online /get-intl >> %SUMMARYLOG%

In the folder where this script is executed, we have all the our language pack folders,

This same script would of course work for you even if you just had one language pack folder (each of these language pack folders btw just contains the lp.cab for the language specified by the folder name).