Disallow changing of geographic location

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

This policy setting prevents users from changing their user geographical location (GeoID). If you enable this policy setting, users cannot change their GeoID. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users may select any GeoID. If you enable this policy setting at the computer level, it cannot be disabled by a per-user policy setting. If you disable this policy setting at the computer level, the per-user policy is ignored. If you do not configure this policy setting at the computer level, restrictions are based on per-user policy settings. To set this policy setting on a per-user basis, make sure that the per-computer policy setting is not configured.

This policy has no additional user input fields.

• Computer
  Disallow changing of geographic location

  At least Windows Vista
• Computer
  Disallow copying of user input methods to the system account for sign-in

  At least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT
• Computer
  Disallow selection of Custom Locales

  At least Windows Vista
• User
  Disallow selection of Custom Locales

  At least Windows Vista
• Computer
  Disallow user override of locale settings

  At least Windows Vista
• User
  Disallow user override of locale settings

  At least Windows Vista
• Computer
  Restrict system locales

  At least Windows Vista
• Computer
  Restrict user locales

  At least Windows Vista
• User
  Restrict user locales

  At least Windows Vista