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Date and Language Settings in Teams
Hi moses2023,
No, teams admin portal does not provide the ability to set the language and date format for individual users or the entire organization.
Each user has the flexibility to choose their preferred language and date format within their own Teams client settings. They can go to their profile picture or initials in the top right corner of the Teams app, select "Settings," and then navigate to the "General" section to make these adjustments.
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Leon Pavesic
The teams does not use windows date, Time and the language. I could not find anything to manage one user or whole organization's settings to set default language and time zone.
- LeonPavesicJul 11, 2023Silver Contributor
Hi moses2023,
thanks for the update.
Please check out this link:
Change settings in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Support
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Leon Pavesic- moses2023Jul 11, 2023Copper ContributorThe link is for the user settings. I wanted to know if there are admin settings and the admins could setup the policy for the users.
- StevenC365Jul 11, 2023MVP
moses2023 There is no policy in Teams to set the region/language.
The setting is persisted locally on the client, in a file called desktop-config.json, while it's not supported it is possible to change the setting in the file e.g. Change Teams Language from PowerShell ยท GitHub
I would still be questioning why it's not right by default, it's not something that should need to be changed in bulk. Teams should detect the OS language as per Languages supported in Microsoft Teams for Education - Microsoft Support