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Tips on using SharePoint in a multilingual environment

Martin Laplante

Martin Laplante

Blog by Martin Laplante


In most versions of SharePoint on premise, and in classic SharePoint sites, you have to declare the language of the site when you create it.  You c...
16.05.19 11:05 PM - Comment(s)

It's been a busy week at PointFire, with three version releases.  Version 2.2.3 of PointFire 365 came out, with several improvements, the much anticipated version 1.1.0 of PointFire Power Translator, and the final beta of PointFire 2019.  PointFire 2019 v1.0 was scheduled to be released th...

29.03.19 05:03 PM - Comment(s)

This post was prompted by a conversation with Bob German, a Partner Technology Architect for Microsoft.

In his talk at the Collaboration Summit in Branson MO, he touted the localization features of developing custom tabs for Teams using SPFx.


We chatted a bit after that, ...
19.03.19 08:03 PM - Comment(s)

This is the first of a series of posts based on my talk "Using Communication, Team, and Hub Sites in a Multilingual Organisation".


Once upon a time, large transnational organizations had many separate SharePoint farms in different countries or regions.  This made sense.  A SharePo...
08.01.19 09:01 PM - Comment(s)

9 months ago we showed how PointFire Power Translator can be used to translate modern SharePoint pages. Nothing else does this. It uses the latest neural network translation engines, not the old Bing engine. Thanks to all the beta testers, the final product is simpler to install and easier to u...

09.10.18 08:10 PM - Comment(s)