Setting windows timezone during oobe autopilot enrollment

[ZombieKiller]

On an autopilot oobe enrollment the endpoint defaults to pacific time zone and doesn’t update. This is messing up some scripts and deployments (especially baselines). How do I get the endpoint to update the time zone and sync to the current time during enrollment? This is especially important because the console reports "hmac failure: incorrect time", which has issues with cert deployments.

I’d rather not use a script as that takes a good amount of time to download and run. Is there a custom profile that can use syncxml or one of the new windows beta profiles?

[Ivan de Mes]

Assuming that you already know how to construct the required syncml xml, maybe the following article may be of assistance...

All about Microsoft Intune | Configure time zones via Windows 10 MDM

See chapter 3b.

[Ivan de Mes]

If this works, I don't know how this works out timing wise though...

[ZombieKiller]

I've tried configuring the time zone using syncxml and deploying it via a custom setting, it just won't work. Right now I am using the new windows(beta) profile and setting it to US Eastern Standard Time. Not exactly what I want, but at least it works.

[Phillip Helmling]

try deploying a profile to set the TZ, this is one that sets it by powershell:

Profile Template - https://github.com/helmlingp/WS1UEM_Profiles/blob/master/WS1Profile_RunPS_Template.xml

script to add into the profile: https://github.com/helmlingp/WS1UEM_Profiles/blob/master/Set_TZwithPowershell.xml

This method allows a user to override it if users reside in other TZs. If you want to lock it down then create a Custom Profile and paste in https://github.com/helmlingp/WS1UEM_Profiles/blob/master/Set_TZwithCSP.xml

[ebe]

you can try this
https://call4cloud.nl/fixing-time-zone-issues-in-windows-autopilot/

[ZombieKiller]

On 11/27/2024 at 11:22 PM, Phillip Helmling said:

try deploying a profile to set the TZ, this is one that sets it by powershell:

Profile Template - https://github.com/helmlingp/WS1UEM_Profiles/blob/master/WS1Profile_RunPS_Template.xml

script to add into the profile: https://github.com/helmlingp/WS1UEM_Profiles/blob/master/Set_TZwithPowershell.xml

This method allows a user to override it if users reside in other TZs. If you want to lock it down then create a Custom Profile and paste in https://github.com/helmlingp/WS1UEM_Profiles/blob/master/Set_TZwithCSP.xml

I really like this idea and will have to try it out.