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Change default language in Sharepoint (OneDrive)

For an international company, it is important to define the company language (e.g. English) as the default language. Unfortunately, when initializing O365, the language is set according to the location (in our case "German"). This is devastating because all SharePoint pages (including OneDrive) are subsequently created in "German". This should at least be pointed out.
Unfortunately there is no possibility to change the default language afterwards. The workarounds with multi-language support are not satisfactory. Nevertheless, German continues to dominate in many areas

Please point out the importance of the language during the initial setup and give the possibility to select the default language. As an alternative, it would be good if Microsoft provides a way to change the default language afterwards.

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  • Alok Tanna commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is VERY important for Global organizations. Hope Microsoft does something to fix it.

  • Alok Tanna commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    My company is in the Poland, for some reason, our sharepoint was created in Poland. Since we are international, with offices on other countries, all our communication is in English... but every team we create has its underlying sharepoint created in Poland, which is just insane. And we cannot change it. we need this fix urgently

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    My company is in the Netherlands and, for some reason, our sharepoint was created in Dutch. Since we are international, with offices on other countries, all our communication is in English... but every team we create has its underlying sharepoint created in Dutch, which is just insane. And we cannot change it.

  • Alex Carlock commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm not working for an international company and running into this issue more and more because MS Teams creates a SharePoint site in Dutch but we want them in English (or better yet, configurable for the regional country that created the Team). Due to a migration, we now have almost 300 MS Teams sites in Dutch and our English speaking employees and Clients are confused by the Dutch invitations and sharing requests, not to mention the names of certain folders. This makes me feel that Office 365 is not a truly global minded service offering.

  • anonym commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Years later and nothing. The first setups where done by hacks and now when we pro's come in to help customers you make us all look like hacks. Embarrasing.

  • Fabian Sohet commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Exactly ! I just have the same issue.
    For every new user, the default language is French (in my case).
    We need to be able to define a company language by default.
    We work with employees around the world and/or speaking a different language. By default, if a user has the interface in his locale he has a tendency to keep it as is.
    But when it comes for an admin to give some support it is not easy to navigate in the menus when it is not in English (the company language).
    Or even to create some documentation guidelines, the screenshots will not correspond to the user's interface. I've plenty of practical examples in mind.

    Thank you for developing this feature as soon as possible.

  • Caroline commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    When creating Teams, all connected SharePoint sites are created with the default language Dutch. All alerts sent out to our users are Dutch. We are a glolbal company and most of our users do not understand Dutch.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Exactly the same case, just with Czech language. This is annoying for all international companies.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Even the "Prefered language" is not "sticking" when setting it up to "enforce" English within the M365 admin center..

    It should be possible to set a prefered language - and when the "option" is there.. It should work..

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Changing language should be possible in any environment. Basic functionality! Please fix as this is a real problem for international companies. Pointing us to creating a new tenant is not good enough, unless MS offers to do it for all clients.

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