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.
Gian
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Anonymous
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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!!
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Anonymous
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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.
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Anonymous
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+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.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.
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Anonymous
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This is so ridiculous - we are international, operating from Switzerland - and all is in German. Bad German, for that matter.
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Paulo
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+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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Markus Feder
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This ist absolutely not working for a company that is acting globally.
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Ian Caldwell
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Bonus feature! When users create a new Team using the Teams app, there is no option to change the language. So our lock-in to the "default language" is getting worse and worse, with many unhappy users.
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Suraj
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We need this to be changed from English to Dutch for the whole tenant.
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Ian Caldwell
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So fun, I am back here again. Please change this ASAP. Language should never be hard-coded anywhere - and if a user has selected English, then the language should be English. Our entire 365 tenant is stuck in Swedish. This issue is being reported by our users - they share a file by email, and the email is sent in Swedish. They do not speak or understand Swedish.
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Anonymous
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We are also in the same boat - We have a tenant in the Netherlands but the Language is German, But the main language is English. I have done everything I can to try and fix this manually but even simple things like Automated emails from Sharepoint are still in German regardless of the Site setup.
We really need the ability to change this surely it shouldnt be hard coded into the Tenant from Day 1.
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Anonymous
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We have also the same problem.
Every user who syncing the local OneDrive folders, Pictures, Documents and Desktop with OneDrive, the folders are in Turkish. And for over 700 people is this a no-goPlease find a solution
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Anonymous
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Man I need the customer!
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Oliver
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+1 on this request. Either allow updating of default language or change how default language is handled. This is such a critical and basic communication requirement - behavior simply should not be locked forever for all future pages and sites in this modern day and age.
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Anonymous
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we all need this, thanks
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Michael Armiger
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This would be exceptionally helpful as with the addition of the Private Channels in teams, the sharepoint sites created by these private channels use the default language as well. Being able to change this default would save a lot of time and effort having to change each one.
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Lars Kops
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We are a global company with employees working in many different parts of the world. If we cannot provide our users with the option to change the default language on SharePoint Online we have to stop using the platform.
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Ole Gregersen
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we need to be able change default language for sharepoint online.
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Anonymous
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We are a HK based company but primarily use English for correspondences. Our 0365 subscription is however set to Chinese by default, which is very annoying. Most of employees here use only English. Pls provide option ASAP to allow us to change the default language to English for all users in our o365 subscription.
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ilker
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I had several tickets about this issue. Problem is tickets are never reaching out to sharepoint developers. If it was possible to contact with a sharepoint developer, they could fix this in minutes. But unfortunately it's not possible. Only solution support is able to provide is deleting my-sharepoint site and re-creating it.
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Brian Iselin
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It is hopeless that we have our Sharepoint site in German, just because we are physically in Switzerland. As an international organisation, our working language is English, we have only one German speaker out of 40 staff, and even then we are in the French part of Germany. Why German? No organisation located in the Swiss Romandie could work with this. It makes no sense for us from any direction.