SharePoint Server 2013 Language Packs

Hi dear friends!

Update: Additional SharePoint Server 2013 LP’s (the full list) made GA, Generally Available since April 30 – SharePoint Server 2013 LP’s

Language support in SharePoint 2013 onprem…
(Lacking better info, I assume that the same list applies to SharePoint online)

Remember this anyone?

If you are like me you have not seen anything official on the topic of Language Packs and release dates and availability yet (written April 16, 2013).
I don’t know if anyone has put this info out there yet, but I have not found it and then I figure it won’t hurt to do it here I guess…

In my case, I was looking for Swedish, but others need to find their special local language, now I have some info for all of you:

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SharePoint Server 2013 LP’s (44 LP’s)

SharePoint Foundation 2013 LP’s (44 LP’s)

Office Web Apps 2013 LP’s (44 LP’s)

Credits and References

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SharePoint in the languages listed under Server Language packs are also available in a localized server version, these are also available at MSDN

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SharePoint Server 2013
Since (March 28) April 30th, all Language Packs are now available as a free download (link) Select your language in the dropdown or use the directlink in the list below.
(serverlanguagepack.img) I recommend renaming the files when downloaded since all LP’s have the same name, add for example the two letter code for your country after the filename: serverlanguagepack_se.exe (Swedish SPS LP)

TechNet suggests you take one of the following actions:
For Windows Server 2012, open the .img file directly and run Setup.exe (double-click it).
For Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, use a program that can mount or extract .img files. Then run Setup.exe (double-click it).

Generally Available Server Language packs listed:

Language	Release date
English	March 28, 2013
German	April 30, 2013
French	April 30, 2013
Hebrew	April 30, 2013
Italian	April 30, 2013
Japanese	April 30, 2013
Spanish	April 30, 2013
Catalan	April 30, 2013
Portuguese-Brazil	April 30, 2013
Chinese – Simplified	April 30, 2013
Chinese – Traditional	April 30, 2013
Dutch	April 30, 2013
Korean	April 30, 2013
Russian	April 30, 2013
Czech	April 30, 2013
Greek	April 30, 2013
Hungarian	April 30, 2013
Romanian	April 30, 2013
Thai	April 30, 2013
Turkish	April 30, 2013
Ukrainian	April 30, 2013
Serbian (Latin) N/A!	April 30, 2013
Serbian (Cyrillic)	April 30, 2013
Slovak	April 30, 2013
Slovenian	April 30, 2013
Bulgarian	April 30, 2013
Croatian	April 30, 2013
Estonian	April 30, 2013
Kazakh	April 30, 2013
Latvian	April 30, 2013
Lithuanian	April 30, 2013
Danish	April 30, 2013
Finnish	April 30, 2013
Norwegian (Bokmål)	April 30, 2013
Swedish	April 30, 2013
Arabic	April 30, 2013
Hindi	April 30, 2013
Polish	April 30, 2013
Portuguese-Portugal	April 30, 2013
Malay (Malaysia)	April 30, 2013
Indonesian	April 30, 2013
Vietnamese	April 30, 2013
Galician	April 30, 2013
Basque	April 30, 2013

You can also find these on MSDN (and TechNet) (link):
(nn_office_server_2013_language_pack_x64_dvd_nnnnnnn.iso)

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SharePoint Foundation 2013
Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2013 is a free download (link)
(sharepointlanguagepack.exe) I recommend renaming the files when downloaded since all LP’s have the same name, add for example the two letter code for your country after the filename: sharepointlanguagepack_se.exe (Swedish SPF LP)
Size: Aproximately 29 MB

Language	Release date
English	October 30, 2012
German	October 30, 2012
French	October 30, 2012
Hebrew	October 30, 2012
Italian	October 30, 2012
Japanese	October 30, 2012
Spanish	October 30, 2012
Catalan	October 30, 2012
Portuguese-Brazil	October 30, 2012
Chinese – Simplified	October 30, 2012
Chinese – Traditional	October 30, 2012
Dutch	October 30, 2012
Korean	October 30, 2012
Russian	October 30, 2012
Czech	October 30, 2012
Greek	October 30, 2012
Hungarian	October 30, 2012
Romanian	October 30, 2012
Thai	October 30, 2012
Turkish	October 30, 2012
Ukrainian	October 30, 2012
Serbian (Latin) N/A!	October 30, 2012
Serbian (Cyrillic)	October 30, 2012
Slovak	October 30, 2012
Slovenian	October 30, 2012
Bulgarian	October 30, 2012
Croatian	October 30, 2012
Estonian	October 30, 2012
Kazakh	October 30, 2012
Latvian	October 30, 2012
Lithuanian	October 30, 2012
Danish	October 30, 2012
Finnish	October 30, 2012
Norwegian (Bokmål)	October 30, 2012
Swedish	October 30, 2012
Arabic	October 30, 2012
Hindi	October 30, 2012
Polish	October 30, 2012
Portuguese-Portugal	October 30, 2012
Malay (Malaysia)	October 30, 2012
Indonesian	October 30, 2012
Vietnamese	October 30, 2012
Galician	October 30, 2012
Basque	October 30, 2012

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Office Web Apps 2013
Language Packs for Office Web Apps 2013 is a free download (link)
(wacserverlanguagepack.exe) I recommend renaming the files when downloaded since all LP’s have the ame name, add for example the two letter code for your country after the filename: wacserverlanguagepack_se.exe (Swedish LP)
Size: Aproximately 25.5 MB

List last updated May 23, 2013

Language	Release date
English
German
French
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Spanish
Catalan
Portuguese-Brazil
Chinese – Simplified
Chinese – Traditional
Dutch
Korean
Russian
Czech
Greek
Hungarian
Romanian
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Serbian (Latin) N/A!
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Slovak
Slovenian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Estonian
Kazakh
Latvian
Lithuanian
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian (Bokmål)
Swedish
Arabic
Hindi
Polish
Portuguese-Portugal
Malay (Malaysia)
Indonesian
Vietnamese
Galician
Basque

I hope that this will help you find what you need. This was the kind of info I was looking for and could not find so hopwefully it will help you save time.

References:

Language Packs for Microsoft Office Web Apps Server
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35490

Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2013
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35492

Office Server 2013 Language Pack on MSDN Subscriber Downloads
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442898.aspx#FileId=50889

Install or uninstall language packs for SharePoint 2013 (Foundation and Server)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262108.aspx

Thanks to:
Wictor Wilén who pointed out the simple fact to me that the Server LP’s were available on MSDN…a fact I had somehow managed to miss.

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Enjoy!

Regards

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Activate selected languages on all subsites using Powershell

Hi friends.

If you ever find yourself wanting to enable a particular language or set of languages on a site Collection and all subsites, and if you do NOT want to enable all languages installed but rather Control what gets enabled? Here is a scripot that will help you.
In my own scenario I had 4 site Collections, each tageted for a different nordic country, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. So, the need is to have enabled English for all and only the countrys language for the 4 site Collections.

Looking for an existing sample code to use, I found many that were copies of the MSDN sample, this is a good piece of code but it enables all languages installed.

So, trying to find a clever way of selecting what language got enabled, I found an old script I created for the same customer, the solution was so simple it works!
While iterating thru all the installed languages, site by site, I check the displayname of the Language and add criteria fro the languages to install. Beautifully simple 🙂
There is Little difference between this and the MSDN sample code, but is was an important difference to me.

This is what I used in the end:

# Enables SELECTED installed languages for each subsite in a site collection
 $spSiteURL = http://sharepoint.balkestahl.se/sites/subsitecountry
 $spSite = Get-SPSite -Identity $spSiteURL
 foreach ($spWeb in $spSite.AllWebs)
 {
   $spWeb.IsMultilingual = $true
   $WebRegionSettings = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRegionalSettings($spWeb)
   foreach ($language in $WebRegionSettings.InstalledLanguages)
   {
     If ($language.DisplayName -eq "English" -or $language.DisplayName -eq "Swedish")
     # Add the displayname of any langauge you have installed: -or $language.DisplayName -eq "Norwegian" -or $language.DisplayName -eq "Finnish" -or $language.DisplayName -eq "Danish"
     {
        write-host -BackgroundColor Green -ForegroundColor Black "Update -" $spWeb "site with LCID:" $language.DisplayName
        $culture = New-Object System.Globalization.CultureInfo($language.LCID)
        $spWeb.AddSupportedUICulture($Culture)
     }
     else
     {
        Write-host " Language not activated: " $language.DisplayName " on site " $spWeb.Name
     }
   }
   $spWeb.Update()
 }

This saved me hours and hours…or made it possible 🙂
The running of the script looks something like this, in my case around 3000 times for the Swedish collection, all in all, 50.000 subsites!):

Before running the script, in each site, you have these settings:
(Accessed under: Site Settings/Language Settings, path: /_layouts/muisetng.aspx)

And what we want to do, is check the box for the selected language(s) and move on to the next.

When adding the criteria to the If statement, use the displaynames exactly like in the list in Site Settings/Language Settings:

This script saved me, I hope it can do the same for some of you.

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Enjoy!

Regards

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SharePoint 2010 Language packs, finding them, collecting them and deploying them

A few thousand years ago, humans were a race of hunter/gatherers. We also lived in caves and were a very simple and crude race. At times when working with SharePoint, you can find that the old mindset is coming back…if only for a few seconds.

Language Packs.

I have been in the situation myself where I find myself lost regarding language packs, so I was forced to find all these things out and here are my findings for you to reuse at will.

This post will not cover what language to use when and when you need to do some more work to get a site completely localized, that is for another post. This is about deploying them, getting the correct bits onto the servers and getting them to work.

What do I need to install:

First: Technet states that: SharePoint Foundation 2010 language packs are not required for SharePoint Server 2010.(Deploy language packs (SharePoint Server 2010))
Perhaps there are different opinions as there are about what to install regarding CU’s, but I have followed this advise without any issues or missing language bits.

Now, you have a series of different LP’s and namings are different in different places, I’ll focus on the clean SharePoint 2010 Foundation and Server. No Project or other unrelated stuff touched here…

At the very end of this post you will find the complate list of Languages available. (Updated 11-11-04)

1. Foundation:

You need the Language Pack files for the language you need to have present in your sites. English, German, French, Arabic…at this point in time, I would recommend that you install the LP and its SP1.

2. Server

The same goes for Foundation as well as for server.

Find the binaries:

Correct me if you think that I’m wrong, but it was never easy to find the files you need. I have simply collected the links you need in one place.

1. Foundation

Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2010

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=4731

Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Language Pack (KB2460059) (Naming is brilliantly describing, thank you Microsoft)
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26629

Description from Microsoft, judging by the english LPSP1 at 9MB there has not been many updates which is a good thing:
Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Language Pack contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability.
Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.
The KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460059

See Server for details on the actual downloads. Difference here is that the name of the complate package for foundation is ‘SharePointLanguagePack.exe’ instead of ‘ServerLanguagePack.exe’ for Server. I would rename the ‘SharePointLanguagePack.exe’ to ‘SPFoundationLanguagePack_en-us.exe’ . The LPSP1 for foundation has a nice spf in front of it (spflanguagepack2010sp1-kb2460059-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe), placing it on your foundation servers. Although, maybe ‘FoundationLanguagePackSP1_en-us.exe’ would be easier and more explaining…

2. Server

2010 Server Language Packs for SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010 (is the ‘short’ name of this LP)

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3411

Service Pack 1 for Server Language Pack 2010 (KB2460056) (again, naming is a bit off…no mentioning of SharePoint which can throw you off a bit…)

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26621

The KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460056

The design of the downloadpage will change based on what language you select, and in a few languages you must press ‘Change’ or the button that corresponds in that language. After you have pressed change, or as in for example the english page, that will redirect on the dropdown-select and a click on the page, you can start the download (you will get it). The file you will get is named ‘ServerLanguagePack.exe’ no matter what language it is for. A nice best practise is to rename it during or after it is downloaded to something like SPServerLanguagePack_en-us.exe or similar, so that you can separate your different language pack files later on.

For the Language Pack Service Pack 1, you obviously have something completely different. The site will look a little different but generally the same, it will just like the LP page look different in different languages, so that needs no further description.
What is really different is the files you get. They are here named as: serverlanguagepack2010sp1-kb2460056-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe, Obviously…I rename them simply ServerLanguagePackSP1_en-us.exe as they will most likely end up together in one folder.

All download pages and packages are localized in itself, so if you need to install for example an arabic LP and don’t speak arabic, make sure to memorize the location and meaning of the buttons, but also remember that they will be mirrored.

Install the binaries:

1. Foundation

This is the official technet version: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288518.aspx

Use any method you prefer, clicking on them one by one and wait for it to finish, then click the next, and so on. Or…you do as I usually do, create a script. In a multitier farm this is essential so that you can save time to do other great things.

My simple script looks like this for the Swedish and German LP’s + LPSP1: (saved in a text file as Install_LP.cmd)

“C:\Updates Binaries\SPFoundationLanguagePack_sv-se.exe” /quiet
“C:\Updates Binaries\SPFoundationLanguagePack_de-de” /quiet
“C:\Updates Binaries\SPFoundationLanguagePackSP1_sv_se.exe” /quiet
“C:\Updates Binaries\SPFoundationLanguagePackSP1_de-de.exe” /quiet

Install the binaries on every Application and Web server in your farm!
This is the only approach that will be accepted when you want to run the PSConfig/Config Wizard to finalize the update in the farm. The technet instruction above is a bit shaky on this particular subject but this is a fact, you need the exact same Language Packs’s on all of your servers, except off course the Database servers and the email servers…

In order to run PSConfig, I also use a script to do it, save a text file in the same folder as the updates and name it Install_PSConfig.cmd (or something you like better). It needs a single line:

“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN\psconfig” -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait

Direct it to where your 14 Hive is located. This way, you don’t have to look up the exact functions of the PSConfig tool every time…
(if you have a multitier farm with many servers, store the scriptfiles on a fileshare and the path will be the same on all servers, you will also only have to update it in one place.)

2. Server

This is the official technet version: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262108.aspx

Same store as for FOundation, the files are different but the method needs to be the same. The script would now look something like:

“C:\Updates Binaries\SPServerLanguagePack_sv-se.exe” /quiet
“C:\Updates Binaries\SPServerLanguagePack_de-de” /quiet
“C:\Updates Binaries\SPServerLanguagePackSP1_sv_se.exe” /quiet
“C:\Updates Binaries\SPServerLanguagePackSP1_de-de.exe” /quiet
(The SP1’s takes very long time to apply…if memory serves me right)

Slipstreaming the SharePoint Language Packs, do or not to do?

During the SharePoint installation, the answer is NO! Not supported, can’t do it! The /Updates folder is only for SharePoint updates and SharePoint updates alone, ServicePacks and Cumulative updates and the likes, functional add-ons like LP’s not included. Try it if you will, but it will simply not work.
During the Language Pack installation…given the way I do it with a silent script, I would say Do NOT. Slipstreaming the LP updates is possible but it does not really save you a lot of time and I know that there have been issues. You will easily loose more than you win.

Verify:

After you have found, downloaded and installed your Languages, how do you see that they are installed at all…? There are a few places to look.
Control panel on one of your SharePoint Web or Application servers:

The Language Pack.

View in Control Panel, Uninstall or change a program

The Language Pack Service Pack 1

View in Control Panel, Uninstall an Update

In CA you will find information on upgrades in 3 places, Servers in farm, Check Product And Patch Istallation Status and Check Upgrade Status. If your Check Upgrade statyus looks like this you can relax, for this time…

I almost forgot! Powershell. Check out installed and missing updates by running:
Get-SPProduct | select *
and
Get-SPProduct | select -ExpandProperty PatchableUnitDisplayNames
(Requires that you first run add-pssnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.powershell)

Summary

There are probably things that should be here that I have missed, or that you think is incorrect or that should be included. Please let me know so that I can correct this and make this a better place of information on Language pack finding, collection and deployment.

1 down, at least 3500 steps left to get your ultimate SharePoint 2010 farm in order…

List of available languages (list updated September 16, 2010 at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff463597.aspx)

Arabic 1025

Basque 1069

Bulgarian 1026

Catalan 1027

Chinese (Simplified) 2052
Chinese (Traditional) 1028

Croatian 1050

Czech 1029

Danish 1030

Dutch 1043

English 1033

Estonian 1061

Finnish 1035

French 1036

Galician 1110

German 1031

Greek 1032

Hebrew 1037

Hindi 1081

Hungarian 1038

Italian 1040

Japanese 1041

Kazakh 1087

Korean 1042

Latvian 1062

Lithuanian 1063

Norwegian (Bokmål) 1044

Polish 1045

Portuguese (Brazil) 1046

Portuguese (Portugal) 2070

Romanian 1048

Russian 1049

Serbian (Latin) 2074

Slovak 1051

Slovenian 1060

Spanish 3082

Swedish 1053

Thai 1054

Turkish 1055

Ukrainian 1058