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Tips on using SharePoint in a multilingual environment

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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)
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)
Code Redundancy in SharePoint Online Software

One of the ways in which writing reliable software for SharePoint Online differs from previous versions of SharePoint is all the extra redundancy that has to be built in.  It's a little like writing software for a space mission, deployed in an environment where it can be subjected to many types...

15.03.18 02:03 PM - Comment(s)