Office 365 language inconsistency

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We have people in many different regions, some speak French, some German, some Polish. When they open their OWA Outlook, all is fine. As soon as they open any other O365 cloud service like ODFB or OneNote, the language switches back to German for everybody. As this is AADConnect, there is absolutely no option in the web interface to change/define/set the language. How can I achieve that my people in French have a French ODFB experience?

jcgonzalezmartin · Answer

:-)...you need to add support for French language at the ODFB configuration (same applies to any other SPO Site). These are the steps a user must follow in ODFB:(1) Browse ODFB and clic on the Cog icon on the top bar(2) Clic on Site Settings(3) Clic on Language Settings under Site Administration(4) Select French Language and clic OK(5) (Optional) Sign Out from ODFB and Sing again. If everything goes well, the user should be the ODFB UX in FrenchFor a SPO site the steps are similar.

vasilmichev · Answer

The thing is that some applications have their own language settings, others use the browser or OS language settings. But yeah, there's definitely some space for improvement...

matthias zoss · Answer

The people in France are running French Windows with French language settings.
In Chrome, Edge and IE (that run in the French language as well), the Sharepoint is in German.
Cache deleted. O365 License language/country switched and switched back. No effect.

vasilmichev · Answer

SharePoint is a different beast altogether, sadly. Some of the SPO sites/pages use the "default" language that was used when the tenant was provisioned, but you should be able to turn on additional languages as detailed here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2883180/you-can-t-change-the-default-language-for-a-sharepoint-online-site-col
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jcgonzalezmartin&nbsp;might be able to explain it better than me :)

matthias zoss · Answer

Getting there for OneNote, ODFB etc:
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As Juan says, you need to use "language settings" and it works. THANK YOU.
But you only have limited access to&nbsp;"Country and Region": You can only change timezone here. Else there is&nbsp;an error that is explained here&nbsp;https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2824721/error-when-you-change-the-locale-setting-for-the-sharepoint-online-pub
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Websiteverwaltung

Landes-/Regionaleinstellungen
Spracheinstellungen&nbsp;(this one)

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For Sharepoint I think, the admin needs to add the language to each site/group.

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