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Peter Allan
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Apr 27, 2017
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Selected Group Language not honored by created Sharepoint site

Dear Community,   Whenever I create a group, the created SharePoint site has a different default language.   I always select english, but the created site has a default set as german. Interesting...
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  • Peter Allan's avatar
    Peter Allan
    Apr 28, 2017
    Update:

    After a long call with Microsoft support I was told this.

    - The SharePoint default language is determined by the tenant language
    - Your cannot pick the tenant language during setup. It is derived from your browser location
    - If you create an office 365 group, the language of the SharePoint site will be the tenant language, independent of the Group Language you select.

    I tried to reason, that this is a bug, especially since the outcome is bi-lingual SharePoint site and the ticket must not be closed. My request was refused and it was declared "works as designed"

    Just so you know!
Peter Allan's avatar
Peter Allan
Copper Contributor
Apr 28, 2017
Update:

After a long call with Microsoft support I was told this.

- The SharePoint default language is determined by the tenant language
- Your cannot pick the tenant language during setup. It is derived from your browser location
- If you create an office 365 group, the language of the SharePoint site will be the tenant language, independent of the Group Language you select.

I tried to reason, that this is a bug, especially since the outcome is bi-lingual SharePoint site and the ticket must not be closed. My request was refused and it was declared "works as designed"

Just so you know!
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ssquires
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Aug 16, 2018
All correct - for folks monitoring this thread please note the recent blog post we published around self-service site creation updates: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Updates-to-SharePoint-self-service-site-creation/ba-p/218971 - which includes a new language selector to set the default site language at creation time to something other than the default tenant language. Note this only sets the site language, not the group mailbox language. Hope this helps!
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    avdberg
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 17, 2018

    Thanks for the update, can't see anything about the API's but I assume will this language option will also be available in the API's to create modern O365 Group sites?

    • IrisDR's avatar
      IrisDR
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 30, 2019

      @ Sean Squires I get the option to select a language for my group, but it is still not honoured! Everything is set to English, my Windows, my browser, my group, but still the group is created in Dutch! Also the first screen asking to connect to Team Site is in Dutch, whereas my OneDrive for Business (which I use as the entry point to create the Group) is in English.

      I am out of my wits here. I teach Office 365 and I will be teaching my English-speaking students to create a group, but I can't show them in English.

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