I need to setup a script in group policy that we be used in different regions of the world. Are environmental variables such as %ProgramFiles% language specific? I'm hoping that a script of %ProgramFiles% can be used both in spain and france even though their language is setup for the specific regions.
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No. They are not language specific.
When you use %ProgramFiles% the operating system will check in Windows registry where %ProgramFiles% maps to. This mapping is done during Windows installation and therefore using the placeholder %ProgramFiles% you'll have a language/country agnostic solution.
No, but do watch out. I encountered a application that looked in "c:\Program Files" (hard coded, apparently). Tried to run it on a German (maybe it was French? Don't recall) version of Windows. "Program Files" is something else in German - I don't recall what, but it didn't parse as expected and of course the program failed.