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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...
- 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!
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!
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!
The default language of each created O365 Group site will be the same as the default language of the root level site collection of your tenant. It's technically possible to remove this site collection and recreate it with the desired language which will then be the new default language of your new O365 Group sites
