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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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  • 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.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

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

  • ilker commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I don't think microsoft understands what the problem is.They're still not aware of this problem. Because it should be priority number one in all microsoft as a problem if they knew. This is very embrassing for microsoft.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1 As a global company we are stuck with Romanian as the default language making everyone receive all Sharepoint and OneDrive email notifications in Romanian and not being able to understand them.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Check out the locale for your root site collection. That will be in the wrong locale, in which all new teams are also created. By using site swap you can change you root site collection to a different locale, which will result in the teams to be created in the right language!!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1

    It is 2020 now. Business is globally and now telling we cannot changing default language/locale for our Office 365 tenant and we need to vote for this? Ridiculous! Even Window 10 can make it happen. You are now dealing with business customers Microsoft.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1 This is ********. I google this issue before I ask Office 365 support and I end it up here to have a "vote" on this.
    According from Microsoft support "My name is *** with Office 365. I wanted to reach out to you to let you know that I took a further look into your case. I was able to find out that Microsoft is working on trying to implement this feature into SharePoint. A lot of people are dealing with this issue at the moment and are voicing their concerns to Microsoft. This form that I will attach to the end of the email will allow you to vote for the feature in order for it to be implemented and released faster. If you have any question's please feel free to send me an email and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

    https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-admin/suggestions/34841875-change-default-language-in-sharepoint-onedrive
    "

    It is 2020 now. Business is globally and now telling we cannot changing default language/locale for our Office 365 tenant and we need to vote for this? Ridiculous! Even Window 10 can make it happen. You are now dealing with business customers Microsoft.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is so ridiculous - we are international, operating from Switzerland - and all is in German. Bad German, for that matter.

  • Paulo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1 As a global company we are stuck with Spanish as the default language making everyone receive all Sharepoint and OneDrive email notifications in Spanish and not being able to understand them.

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