Windows 10: I want to set the timezone to be changed automatically in windows 10, but users should be...

Hi,


we are currently using the windows 10 1803 build in our AD environment and I am searching for the automatic time zone settings as we have users and sites all over Europe. When I google this, I constantly find people who have a toggle switch in their time settings to switch "Set time zone automatically" on or off. We however do not have this switch. As I understand, our build should be recent enough to have this. I can find the registry setting to switch this on or off, nut I want to show this switch for our users, so I can set a GPO preference to set the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tzautoupdate" "Start" value to 3, but if users connect to VPN and get a different location than where they actually are, they can set this to manual themselves. I cannot seem to find this setting anywhere, or someone else who is having this issue.


Thanks in advance.


kr,

Joris Lembregts

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