Mass deployment of French Language Pack to 100+ SurfaceRT 8.1 devices

Hi,
Has anyone been able to download the French Language pack separately (or any language pack for that matter) - store it on a USB stick and do a mass install to a number of SurfaceRT devices?
I see you have the option to download the language pack for some languages but not French or the major languages out there -
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/language-packs#lptabs=win8
Wondering if there is also a way to install on SurfaceRT - use that as a golden image and deploy to another 100 other SurfaceRT devices - I see it does have sysprep there. Anyone tried?
Daniel
Daniel Mar

Hi Daniel,
There is a solution to retrieve the language pack, although I'm not sure it is a method that can find approval of Microsoft.
With an network analysis tool like Wireshark, or Fiddler, performing the step that is described in the post, by Kelvin. You can retrieve the actual URL of the CAB file that will be downloaded. This way you can copy and paste the URL in your internet browser
and download the actual CAB file.
The CAB file can then be injected in the operating system with DISM, with the following command:
DISM /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:"<path to package>\filename.cab"
This can be automated, and distributed to your clients in any way you wish.
Also, it can be embedded when creating your image you use for deployment.
Good luck!
If this post is helpful please click "Mark for answer", thanks! Kind regards

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