Automatic timezone off and greyed out, related to Location policy?

[ak47uk]

I have an issue where onboarded Windows 11 devices have automatic timezone off and greyed out. It is likely linked with the Location privacy setting.

The OIB policies both look really permissive, I wonder whether another app need to be added to "Let Apps Access Location Force Allow These Apps"? Otherwise, maybe the issue is the "Change Time Zone (Windows Insiders only)" setting.

Just wanted to see if others have the auto timezone setting off and grey?

[SkipToTheEndpoint]

Hey!

So I was actually doing some testing on this earlier this week for a different reason because I noticed that despite the policies in place, the "Let apps access your location" in Privacy & Security > Location is greyed out, and as such all the other settings are too, even though the policy allows user control.
I'm not actually sure the "Change Time Zone" setting is required, because a standard user can already change the time zone themselves, at least on Win11.

Annoyingly, I think the only actual fix for this is the deployment of a PS script to change the following reg keys:

HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CapabilityAccessManager\ConsentStore\location\Value - Value "Allow"
HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tzautoupdate\start - Value "3"
HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Sensor\Overrides\{BFA794E4-F964-4FDB-90F6-51056BFE4B44}\SensorPermissionState - Value "1"

So I wouldn't call this a bug with the policies, more that there's a disconnect to how they work, and no control to enable the tzautoupdate reg key. I'll continue to feed this back to MS.