PowerShell - Set-Culture doesn't seem to change anything

Question

I have a Cloud Service Web Role that I need to run some PowerShell on to ensure the server is always setup in the right culture: en-AU.

The reason for this is that Microsoft could, at anytime, reset the culture values.

When I run:

Get-Culture

I get:

1033             en-US            English (United States)

So then I run:

Set-Culture en-AU

But I still get:

1033             en-US            English (United States)

I have tried many things but nothing seems to really change the culture.

Any help would be great.

Answer 1

The root cause is because you are not running the PowerShell with Administrator privilege.

Set-Culture needs Administrator privilege to be set on the system.

Just run your PowerShell in Administrator mode and your culture will be set to the new one as below:

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Like petseral said in a comment above:

Changing user locale does not affect already started PowerShell instances.
You have to start new PowerShell process.