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2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Hi, my name is Gwyneth Marshall, and I’m a Program Manager in the Office International Services team. Our team ensures that the Office products meet the multilingual and multicultural needs of our customers worldwide. Enough readers of this blog have inquired about localized (non-English) versions of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) V3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 that Lawrence has asked me to write a guest blog entry about the topic, and I am happy to oblige.

 

Language packs are available to install on WSS only, MOSS, MOSS for Search, Office Forms Server, and Project Server installations. For MOSS, MOSS for Search, Forms Server, and Project Server installations, the Office server products Language Pack (a.k.a. ServerLanguagePack) needs to be installed; this will take care of all sites. The WSS Language Packs (a.k.a. SharePointLanguagePack) are for WSS stand-alone installations.

 

Microsoft’s 2007 Office server products are localized into languages in two different ways: 1) fully translated SKUs and 2) Language Packs. A language-specific SKU delivers the respective Office server product localized into a given language. A Language Pack may be applied to an installed Office server product to create sites or site collections in other languages. Application of a Language Pack will not change the language of the installed Office server product SKU.

 

For Beta 2 and Beta 2 Tech Refresh (TR), a subset of SKUs and Language Packs will be made available, as shown in the tables below.

·         To download the Language Packs for Beta 2 or very soon for Beta 2 TR, go to http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/download/en/default.mspx.

·         See Deploy Language Packs in Office SharePoint Server 2007 for more information on how to install the language packs.

 

NOTE: The English Language Pack will not be available as a single language pack. You may install the English Language Pack when the Multiple Languages Language Pack (which includes all languages) ships.

 

Beta 2 and Beta 2 TR Timeframes

Release

SKU or Language Park

English

Japanese

German

French

Spanish

Beta 2

WSS Stand-Alone 32-bit

x

x

x

x

x

Beta 2

WSS Stand-Alone 64-bit

x

x

x

 

 

Beta 2

WSS Language Pack 32-bit

 

x

x

 

 

Beta 2

WSS Language Pack 64-bit

 

x

x

 

 

Beta 2

Office SharePoint Server 32-bit

x

x

x

x

x

Beta 2

Office SharePoint Server 64 bit

x

x

x

 

 

Beta 2

Office Forms Server 32-bit

x

x

x

x

x

Beta 2

Office Forms Server 64-bit

x

x

x

 

 

Beta 2

Project Server 32-bit

x

x

x

x

x

Beta 2

Project Server 64-bit

x

x

x

 

 

Beta 2

Office server products Language Pack 32-bit

 

x

x

 

 

Beta 2

Office server products Language Pack 64-bit

 

x

x

 

 

Beta 2 TR

WSS Stand-alone 32-bit Patch

x

x

x

x

x

Beta 2 TR

WSS Stand-alone 64-bit Patch

x

x

x

 

 

Beta 2 TR

WSS Language Pack 32-bit Patch

 

x

x

 

 

Beta 2 TR

WSS Language Pack 64-bit Patch

 

x

x

 

 

Beta 2 TR

Office SharePoint Server 32-bit Patch

x

x

x

x

x

Beta 2 TR

Office SharePoint Server 64-bit Patch

x

x

x

 

 

Beta 2 TR

Office SharePoint Server for Search 32-bit

x

x

 

 

 

Beta 2 TR

Office SharePoint Server for Search 64-bit

x

x

 

 

 

Beta 2 TR

Office Forms Server 32-bit Patch

x

x

x

x

x

Beta 2 TR

Office Forms Server 64-bit Patch

x

x

x

 

 

Beta 2 TR

Project Server 32-bit Patch

x

x

x

x

x

Beta 2 TR

Project Server 64-bit Patch

x

x

x

 

 

Beta 2 TR

Office server products Language Pack 32-bit Patch

 

x

x

 

 

Beta 2 TR

Office server products Language Pack 64-bit Patch

 

x

x

 

 

 

RTM and Post-English-RTM Timeframes

The current list of languages supported by the 2007 Office server products and WSS is in the following table.

Language

Office SharePoint Server, MOSS for Search, Office Forms Server, Project Server, and WSS

Arabic

SKU

Lang Pack

Bulgarian

Lang Pack

Catalan

Lang Pack

Chinese (Hong Kong)

Chinese (Simplified)

SKU

Lang Pack

Chinese (Traditional)

SKU

Lang Pack

Croatian

Lang Pack

Czech

SKU

Lang Pack

Danish

SKU

Lang Pack

Dutch

SKU

Lang Pack

English

SKU

Lang Pack

Estonian

Lang Pack

Finnish

SKU

Lang Pack

French

SKU

Lang Pack

German

SKU

Lang Pack

Greek

SKU

Lang Pack

Hebrew

SKU

Lang Pack

Hindi*

Lang Pack

Hungarian

SKU

Lang Pack

Italian

SKU

Lang Pack

Japanese

SKU

Lang Pack

Korean

SKU

Lang Pack

Latvian

Lang Pack

Lithuanian

Lang Pack

Norwegian (Bokmål)

SKU

Lang Pack

Polish

SKU

Lang Pack

Portuguese (Brazil)

SKU

Lang Pack

Portuguese (Portugal)

SKU

Lang Pack

Romanian

Lang Pack

Russian

SKU

Lang Pack

Serbian (Latin)

Lang Pack

Slovak

Lang Pack

Slovenian

Lang Pack

Spanish

SKU

Lang Pack

Swedish

SKU

Lang Pack

Thai*

SKU

Lang Pack

Turkish

SKU

Lang Pack

Ukrainian

Lang Pack

* Project Server strings will not be localized in the Office server products Language Pack.

 

Spellers

The following is the minimal set of spellers that are planned to ship with the various SKUs and Language Packs.

Language

Fully Localized SKUs

Language Packs

All Languages (SMLP)

 

All Languages

Arabic

Arabic, English, French, Spanish, German

Arabic

Bulgarian

 

Bulgarian

Catalan

 

Catalan

Chinese (Simplified)

English, French, Spanish, German

n/a

Chinese (Traditional)

English, French, Spanish, German

n/a

Croatian

 

Croatian

Czech

Czech, Slovak, English, French, Spanish, German

Czech

Danish

Danish, English, French, Spanish, German

Danish

Dutch

Dutch, English, French, Spanish, German

Dutch

English

English, French, Spanish, German

English

Estonian

 

Estonian

Finnish

Finnish, Swedish, English, French, Spanish, German

Finnish

French

Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Spanish, German

French

German

Italian, English, French, Spanish, German

German

Greek

Greek, English, French, Spanish, German

Greek

Hebrew

Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, German

Hebrew

Hindi

 

Hindi

Hungarian

Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German

Hungarian

Italian

Italian, English, French, Spanish, German

Italian

Japanese

English, French, Spanish, German

n/a

Korean

Korean, English, French, Spanish, German

Korean

Latvian

 

Latvian

Lithuanian

 

Lithuanian

Norwegian (Bokmål)

Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), English, French, Spanish, German

Norwegian

Polish

Polish, English, French, Spanish, German

Polish

Portuguese (Brazil)

Portuguese (Brazil), English, French, Spanish, German

Portuguese (Brazil)

Portuguese (Portugal)

Portuguese (Portugal), English, French, Spanish, German

Portuguese (Portugal)

Romanian

 

Romanian

Russian

Russian, Ukrainian, English, French, Spanish, German

Russian

Serbian (Latin)

 

Serbian (Latin)

Slovak

 

Slovak

Slovenian

 

Slovenian

Spanish

Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese (Brazil), English,  French, Spanish, German

Spanish

Swedish

Swedish, Finnish, English, French, Spanish, German

Swedish

Thai

Thai, English, French, Spanish, German

Thai

Turkish

Turkish, English, French, Spanish, German

Turkish

Ukrainian

 

Ukrainian

 

Related Articles

·         Deploy Language Packs in Office SharePoint Server 2007

·         Deploy multiple language versions of the 2007 Office system

·         Language identifiers in the 2007 Office system

·         Simplified design for multiple languages in the 2007 Office system

 

I hope this information will be helpful to you.

 

 

Gwyneth Marshall

Published Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:09 AM by LLiu

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# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Dear Gwyneth Marshall
It seems you are forgetting Persian language in all your timeframes!!! At least 5 countries speaking Persian, and it’s language of RUMI & HAFEZ poems.
Unfortunately I’m using my own language packs of WSS version 2 and 3, and we are localizing Office 2007 for local use, but I have a lot of effort about contacting Microsoft for officially support, but all of my huge tasks during 3 years past was unsuccessful.
I hope finally I’ll find a way taking to you about this.
Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:02 AM by Farvashan

# 2007 MOSS Resource Links (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server)

Here is an assortment of various 2007 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Documentation / Reference Materials...
Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:52 PM by The Boiler Room - Mark Kruger, SharePoint MVP

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Wow thanks! I have had clients asking for this.
http://www.mikeysgblog.com
Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:25 PM by Michael Gannotti

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Just used this with a client of mine today. Gwyneth you are officially my hero for the day! :-)
http://www.mikeysgblog.com
Friday, August 18, 2006 9:25 AM by Michael Gannotti

# Forgotten language pack of SharePoint

Gwyneth Marshall from SharePoint Team Blog tell us about future language packs of SharePoint and Office....
Saturday, August 19, 2006 4:16 PM by Farvashan's Technical Blog

# 2007 Office System - Server Products Language Offerings

I've just come across the following article written by the Gwyneth Marshall who is the Program Manager...
Sunday, August 20, 2006 4:31 PM by Document Management Systems

# Xbox 360 & SharePoint 2007 Weblog » Blog Archive » SharePoint 2007: MOSS and WSS Language Packs & Availability

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Monday, August 21, 2006 2:10 PM by Xbox 360 & SharePoint 2007 Weblog » Blog Archive » SharePoint 2007: MOSS and WSS Language Packs & Availability

# Japanese Language Pack for 2007 Office server products

   It has come to my attention that the Japanese Language Pack for 2007 Office server products...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:56 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

# 2007 Office System - Server Product Language Offerings

Gwyneth Marshall, Program Manager in the Office International Services Team which ensures that the Office...
Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:33 AM by Stefan Goßner

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Dear Farvashan,

You are correct in that Persian (formerlly known at Microsoft as Farsi) is not currently in the list of languages we plan to ship for Office Server 2007. It is always difficult to decide which languages to budget for translation. We continually receive requests for additional languages. We do evaluate these requests and are currently investigating alternate methods of translation and deployment to meet these customers needs. While I cannot promise that your language will be added in the future, I do encourage you to explore our Local Language Program; working with the local Microsoft office to ensure Persian is added in the future.

More Information

For more information about the Local Language Program, contact your local Microsoft office. Also see the following articles:

Gwyneth Marshall, Program Manager

Monday, August 28, 2006 10:45 AM by Gwyneth Marshall

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Hi
I have two questions about MOSS 2007 language packs:
1. Dose the MOSS language pack include  all the site templates because It seems not (I saw only the wss templates) what do I miss?
2. In cms 2002 authoring of multilingual doesn't requierd from the editor to be familier with all of the languages of the site (regards that he get the content of the page from 3rd person). In MOSS, because the language pack contains also the admin in it so for each langauge we should have its own editor. What is the best practice for authoring, management  and editing multilingual sites with MOSS 2007?

Regards,
Meron Fridman
Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:48 PM by meron fridman

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Hi

Is the Arabic Language pack for either WSS 3.0 or SharePoint Portal 2007 available yet?

I'm confused with the tables you posted.

Thanks

Faisal
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:23 PM by Faisal Al Khaja

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Faisal, the Arabic LP and SKU for both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 will be available in the "RTM and Post-English-RTM" timeframes. Exactly when, we're not ready to announce yet, but it's definitely not in the B2TR timeframe. Sorry.

<Lawrence />
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 6:34 PM by LLiu

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Hi Lawrence,

Thanks .....i hope its not too long though :)

Faisal
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:45 PM by Faisal Al Khaja

# Sharepoint 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR)

Sharepoint 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh B2TR
Saturday, September 16, 2006 7:37 AM by Tecnologie .NET (Dotnet)

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Hi
I have seen the Beta 2 "Office server products Language Packs" mentioned in many places, but I haven't found them anywhere ready to download. Can someone please point me to the place where they actually are? I need the language packs for german (32 and 64 bit)?

Second question: Is it true that for MOSS 2007 *only* the ServerLanguagePacks need to be installed (and the WSS Language Packs do not need to be installed)?

Thank you
Bruno
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:49 AM by Bruno (bruno[dot]erni[at]rtc[dot]ch)

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

In answer to the question, “Is it true that for MOSS 2007 *only* the ServerLanguagePacks need to be installed (and the WSS Language Packs do not need to be installed)?”

There are two types of language packs offered: Office Server and WSS Stand-Alone. The Office Server Language Pack (a.k.a. “ServerLanguagePacks”) is a super-set of translations that includes WSS and can be applied to any Office Server application—MOSS, Forms Server, Project Server, and Search Server. The WSS stand-along language pack applies to WSS only and will not work with any other application.
Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:47 AM by Gwyneth Marshall

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Dear Gwyneth Marshall I have my own localized version of WSS 3 & MOSS 2007, take a look at this: http://80.191.144.36/default.aspx , are you know any way for supporting this by Microsoft? I know that it must be completed by my research team and some details by Microsoft localization team, I'm very interested for collaborating by your teams about completing my 3 years work. can you suggest my a way? or is it possible for me contacting you for more details?
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:58 AM by Farvashan

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Dear Gwyneth Marshall take a look to the my last post please, I need your recommandations about my future plan.
Saturday, September 30, 2006 5:19 PM by Farvashan

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

My Last post is here: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/farvashan/archive/2006/09/30/13125.aspx or, is it possible for me contacting you through email for some details?
Saturday, September 30, 2006 5:37 PM by Farvashan

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

I have been unable to find the Office Server Language Pack mentioned above on my MSDN download account.  Is this only something I can access from msdn downloads and is not available for download on our companies download account?

Thanks - Wil

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:20 PM by wilpeck

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Currently only the English language pack is available for WSS Beta 2.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:29 PM by PhilS

# Japanese Language Pack for 2007 Office server products

It has come to my attention that the Japanese Language Pack for 2007 Office server products that was

Friday, October 27, 2006 12:13 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

We have heard rumours that an upgrade from an English MOSS install to the Dutch language requires a totally new install, because the language changes also apply to the database tables.

Can anybody confirm this? I am not a very technical person, but I find it really strange that for something as simple as a languagepack you need to reinstall, configure and fill your entire MOSS system?

To me as a client this seems as ridiculous as re-installing XP after downloading a Word languagepack.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006 4:05 AM by A MOSS Client

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

I'm looking for any language packs for the RTM version on SharePoint 2007.  I occasionally check MSDN Subscriber Downloads, but they have not shown up as yet.  Please let me know if there is another source to obtain the SharePoint 2007 RTM language packs.  Thanks!

Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:27 PM by Jeff Rios

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Any idea when the RTM version of language packs be available for download?

Sunday, December 31, 2006 1:34 AM by MOSS User

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

hi,Gwyneth Marshall,

i am carrying on the sharepoint multilingual project ,so when and where can i get the sharepoint 07 server japanese language pack?

Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:22 AM by John Zhang

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Dear Gwyneth,

Is the French Server Language Pack available yet?  I searched and searched and always come back to WSS French Language Pack.  We have an urgent need of that package.  Thank you!

Monday, January 22, 2007 8:52 AM by Lucie B.

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Can you just put a link to the RTM version of the language packs on this blog so that I can download them.  Its all very good saying they are available BUT I need the japanese and German packs for my RTM upgrade

Monday, January 22, 2007 2:13 PM by Paul T

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/01/12/new-downloads-including-16-languages-of-office-sharepoint-server-on-msdn.aspx

Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:39 AM by Vishwa Kalyan

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Can anyone tell me where can i find the wss 3.0 catalan language pack?

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 5:51 AM by Carmelo

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Do you know when Office server language pack are ready to download?

Friday, March 09, 2007 5:01 PM by Elecktrus

# MOSS language packs

Here is some usefull information regarding MOSS language packs. It seems that MOSS language packs are

Monday, April 16, 2007 2:13 AM by Alexander Meijers

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Finally here is the link where you can download SharePoint Server 2007 Language Packs

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2447426b-8689-4768-bff0-cbb511599a45&DisplayLang=en

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:35 AM by Vishwa Kalyan

# MOSS Language packs

Microsoft is offering a lot of different language packs for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:22 AM by Alex blog about Microsoft

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Is there anyway we can use content in a new language which is not supported by Sharepoint? Say I would want to add content in a language which has unicode representation. Is that possible? What do you suggest in this case?

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:59 AM by Ramesh

# farsi sharepoint

Dear Marshall,

i have a similar question like mr faravashan for a farsi language pak for moss2007

i have a suggestion that you can give information for creating a new language pak and then we work on it and present it to you  for register to microsoft language pak

if u give me any information that how we can add a new language pak to sharepoint it be very useful

best regards

babak babaee

Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:48 AM by babak

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Hi Gwyneth,

I have a question regarding installing language packs on servers? Currently we have 14 languages installed. The one thing i'm having issue with is that when I create a blog site for other languages (except English, Japanese, and French), it returns an error "Page cannot be displayed." Do you have any idea why this error is appearing and what can I do to solve it?

Thank you very much,

Jaimes

Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:53 AM by Jaimes

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

I looking for the way that can assign two version to one language,for example haveing (English Ver1 & English Ver2) language pack.

Could any one help me...

Tanx

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:08 AM by Tina

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

Where's the Spanish language pack?  I've been to all the links listed here and have searched for hours but to no avail.  Thanks!

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:56 PM by phil shisbey

# re: 2007 Office system -- server products language offerings

For a customer in Macedonia we wonder what would be the future of a Macedonian Language Pack or at least LIP?

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:50 AM by siggi2000

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