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Multiple Keyboard Layouts In Horizon Pools

This may have come up in the past - but I could not find anything clear-cut so here goes...

We have a Horizon infra that is used by various folks arounds the world and for the most part the current language/keyboard config works well enough.  In the golden Win 10 images we have baked the requirements to have a US Keyboard and a Canadian French keyboard - both of which are QWERTY format.  At this point we now have some European users that need France French keyboard which would be AZERTY format.

I would ideally like to keep the number of golden images to a minimum for support purposes - and if possible avoid having the keyboard installed for everyone to avoid user "confusion" for most of the non-France users.

With that in mind I suppose my options would be to either:

  • Bake the new France French keyboard into the golden image so everyone has access to all keyboards

  • Leverage DEM somehow so that I am able to make the France French keyboard available to only a select set of users that request it and no one else

I would much rather the second option and use DEM but I'm not sure if that is even possible and then if so, how could that be actually implemented.  For example would that even go under the Personalization or User Environment sections of DEM?  I've dabbled in keyboard settings with DEM previously and it was not the simplest/cleanest thing to accomplish - so I'm trying to avoid any pitfalls if possible.

Soooo ... my question to the rest of the fellow Horizon/DEM Admin folks out there is: if you have encountered a similar situation how have you handled it, and what suggestions or examples would you be able to share?

Thanks in advance for any help with this, much appreciated!

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