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Selected Group Language not honored by created Sharepoint site
- 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!
- ssquires
Microsoft
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!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?
@ 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.
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
