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Tips on using SharePoint in a multilingual environment

Martin Laplante

Martin Laplante

Blog by Martin Laplante

Come see us in a city near you

We are continuing to sponsor SharePoint shows throughout the world.  Come see the latest PointFire tools in person!  If you're in Belgium, we're sponsoring the free event SharePoint Saturday Brussels on Oct 20, 2018.  We're sponsoring SPS Ottawa on November 10...
09.10.18 07:10 PM - Comment(s)
Modern Sites Will Let You Choose Site Language: Why It's Not A Big Deal

For the past two years, when you were creating a new modern Team or Communication site, SharePoint would not let you specify the language of the site. This was unlike classic sites, when the language could always be chosen.  But soon in Targeted Release, the modern site creation dialog wil...

30.07.18 08:07 PM - Comment(s)

PointFire 365 and PointFire Power Translator support a lot of languages, but language support is not the same for all languages.  Here is a current chart of which languages are currently supported and to what degree.


LanguageQualitySharePoint
AfrikaansNeuralN
ArabicNeuralY
Azerbaijani -Y
Bangla...
30.07.18 08:07 PM - Comment(s)
It's official, Variations are a deprecated feature

SharePoint 2019 public preview is out!


It brings most of the SharePoint Online experience to the on-premise environment.  But as a follow-up to the announcement 4 weeks ago about the retirement of the machine translation service and possible end of Variations, in SharePoint 2019 the li...
24.07.18 06:07 PM - Comment(s)
Update for Machine Translation Services from SharePoint Online

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Plan For Change
Published On : 28 June 2018
30.06.18 08:07 AM - Comment(s)