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Marcel Haas
Brass Contributor
Aug 24, 2017

Modern Communication Site: Can't rename Site title

What happens, when you rename a communication site?    As it's not bound to a Office 365 Group, I just rename it in the classic way under Site Settings > Title. The new title gets accepted in the s...
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MartinLaplante
Iron Contributor
Jan 10, 2022

Cillo8383What do you mean by "tried switching off language settings in site"? Did you remove alternate languages or just turn off the multilingual page properties setting? In the language settings of a communication site you have to click on Show advanced settings.

You don't need to do that, however it sounds like there is a mismatch between the site title in one language and the site title in other languages. There are different ways to change the site title in other languages, and "Set-PnPWeb -Title" is not one I would use, but it looks like you have a mismatch between languages.

You can use Gear Icon -> Site Information -> Site name, once for each language your site supports, or turn the multilingual page publishing feature back on, even temporarily, and use Gear Icon -> Site Information -> and click on "Translate site name" under "Site name (English)"

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Cillo8383
Copper Contributor
Jan 10, 2022
Hi @martinLaplante, This is the first time i've used this platform in a while. Thanks for your response. i have to change 10K site names so i'm sticking with PowerShell to do this. I used the following code which works for the languages, i log in to settings and i can see it's swiched them off. the switch on "site is multilingual" i'm not sure if it's working tbh. I've tested this on a handful of sites, some seem stable for a day. others are jumping back. I can't make sense. perhaps i shouldn't use the $web.ismultilingual switch? We only use English at the moment. so i'm happy to just switch them all off and change title.

$Web.IsMultilingual = $False
#Write-Host -f Green "Removed Language Switch for Site $($web.title)"
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1031) #German
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1036) #French
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(2108) #Irish
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1057) #Indonesian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1044) #Norwegian (Bokm?l)
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1049) #Russian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(2052) #Chinese (Simplified)
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1028) #Chinese (Traditional)
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1081) #Hindi
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1086) #Malay
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1060) #Slovenian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1030) #Danish
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1069) #Basque
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1035) #Finnish
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1043) #Dutch
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1051) #Slovak
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1068) #Azerbaijani
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1026) #Bulgarian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1110) #Galician
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1055) #Turkish
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1106) #Welsh
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1050) #Croatian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1038) #Hungarian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1042) #Korean
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1063) #Lithuanian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1071) #Macedonian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1033) #English
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1025) #Arabic
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1041) #Japanese
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1062) #Latvian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1164) #Dari
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1046) #Portuguese (Brazil)
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(2070) #Portuguese (Portugal)
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(9242) #Serbian (Latin, Serbia)
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1054) #Thai
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(5146) #Bosnian (Latin)
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1029) #Czech
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(3082) #Spanish
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1037) #Hebrew
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1045) #Polish
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(10266) #Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia)
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(2074) #Serbian (Latin)
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1058) #Ukrainian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1032) #Greek
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1061) #Estonian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1040) #Italian
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1087) #Kazakh
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1053) #Swedish
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1066) #Vietnamese
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1027) #Catalan
$Web.RemoveSupportedUILanguage(1048) #Romanian
$Web.Update()
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