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null null
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Aug 02, 2017

New-PnPTenantSite : LocaleId 2057 is not a supported locale.

Hi,   New-PnPTenantSite : LocaleId 2057 is not a supported locale.   i am getting while trying to create a site collection with UK English locale for dates and times .   1033 is US format.   ...
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null null
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Aug 03, 2017

I think this needs to be standardised. 

 

If English is only chosen just because of the language and felt as if it will cater to English UK, its not about language. It impacts the date and time settings, it impacts the alerts, emails which wil get triggered. This sort of setting will mrun a riot in the environment where notification system is in place.

 

I dont know, if it is a technical limitation or kept for future work, but i can't believe a very significant configuration has been left out.

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paulpascha
Bronze Contributor
Aug 03, 2017
Just to clarify, the regional settings you are looking for are available so I don't see a technical limitation in that. The only thing is you cannot specify them right away when creating your site collection. After the site collection has been created you can go to site settings -> regional settings to make your required changes through the UI or you could automate this using PowerShell.
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    Micha_Plexsys
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 26, 2019

    paulpascha In your answer to the question you refer to a microsoft resource containing the language id's. Locale id's will do more than only change the language, but also formatting etc.

     

    According to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/sharepoint-server/ms462988(v%3Doffice.15) The locale id of 2057 should enable UK-locale settings.

     

    But I also receive the same error;

    New-SPOSite : LocaleId 2057 is not a supported locale.
    At line:1 char:1

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      paulpascha
      Bronze Contributor
      Mar 26, 2019

      Micha_Plexsyswhen creating a new site you cannot specify 2057 as the LCID. The LCIDs supported when creating a new site are listed in the article below as part of the SPLanguage class. The SPLocale class exists to support a site's Regional Settings which can be applied after creating the site.

       

      https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/sharepoint-server/ms442852(v=office.15)

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    null null
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 03, 2017

    Thanks Paul for the answer.

     

    However, i dont understand why it was kept outside PowerShell.

    For administrators, it a nightmare if they have to compartmentalize into UI and PowerShell.

     

    Why  -lcid was included in cmdlet if it does not work for all.

    I am seeing things off late in the MS space, which does not look like developed by a product company at all.

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      paulpascha
      Bronze Contributor
      Aug 03, 2017

      The LCID you specify when creating your site collection determines the default language of the site and that works fine if you know the supported LCID's 

       

      I can imagine it would be convenient for you to be able to directly specify the regional settings as well. If it's really important to you, you could go and create your own PowerShell cmdlet based on the exsting one and provide for the additonal functionality that way. The available cmdlets are all Open Source on GitHub and scenario's like yours are great opportunities to contribute!

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        null null
        Iron Contributor
        Aug 03, 2017

        Thanks Paul.

         

        Could you please let me know how do i go about changing a param.

         

        This is a bit grey area for me, is it something that i have to make change to a shell.