Why install the Microsoft Project Central Language Packs?

The English version of Microsoft Project Central Server is English-only. Non-English versions of Microsoft Project Central Server include the language of the specific version and English. Therefore, if the Server version is English, any language version of a browser will display pages in English. If the Server version is non-English (for example, German) and does not have the Language Packs installed, a German browser will display pages in German, an English browser will display them in English, and a browser in any other language will display them in the Server's default language (German, in this example).

To support non-English browser versions, and to display pages in the native language, the Language Pack for that language needs to be downloaded and installed on the Microsoft Project Central Server. With the French Language Pack installed, for example, a French browser will display pages in French no matter what language version of the Server is installed.

Language Pack download locations

The Language Packs for Microsoft Project Central can be downloaded from the Microsoft Project Resource Kit Toolbox.

Language Packs for the following languages are available from the Toolbox:

• LPK1 (PCSLPK_1.MSI): German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean
• LPK2 (PCSLPK_2.MSI) : Swedish, Danish, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Hebrew
• LPK3 (PCSLPK_3.MSI): Dutch, Czech, Polish, Finnish, and Norwegian

Installing the Language Packs

Notes

• The Microsoft Project Central Language Packs must be installed on a machine that already has Microsoft Project Central Server installed.
• In addition to the Microsoft Project Central Language Packs you need to install the proper multilingual document support for the operating system. For example, if you install the Japanese Language Pack on a server with a U.S. version of the operating system that does not have the Japanese character set installed, then even if a user has a Japanese browser, the browser will display English and not Japanese characters. To install support for additional language groups please see Microsoft Windows® Help.
• Don't stop the Web server or the database server when you're running the installation.

To install the Language Packs

1. Download the Windows Installer package or packages from the Toolbox.
2. Run the Windows Installer packages PCSLPK_1.MSI and/or PCSLPK_2.MSI from the computer where Microsoft Project Central Server is installed.

You can select some or all of the languages during installation.

What does installation do?

When you run one of the Windows Installer packages, it completes the following steps:

1. Detects if you already have installed Microsoft Project Central before.
2. Stops the Internet Information Services (IIS) server.
3. Copies all the necessary files and registry keys for the language. These are files in the \Help\LCID, \Isapi\LCID, \object\LCID, and \Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\LCID folders where LCID is the numeric locale ID for each language.
4. Runs the Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) database scripts: Copying the files and registry keys for the language (Step 3 above) ensures that the HTML pages that users see are in the desired language. This step adds the desired entries into the database so that different language versions of a browser display their data (for example, field names) in that language as well the page content.
   

   Note   The scripts will only be run if setup detects a single Microsoft Project Central site that points to a local SQL Server™ or MSDE database. Otherwise they must be run manually (Please read the next section "Running the international database scripts manually" for details).

5. Restarts the IIS server.
6. Tells the user that the installation is complete.

Running the international database scripts manually

To populate an existing SQL Server, MSDE, or Oracle database with language-specific entries (for example, field names), perform the following actions after you have installed the Microsoft Project Central Language Packs:

To insert language-specific entries for a SQL Server or MSDE database

1. On the database server computer, go to the MS-DOS® prompt.
2. Type the following command to insert language-specific entries for the tables:
   osql -U <account name> -P <password> -d <db name> -i <full path>/Insdefsi.sql
   Example 1: You use a local database, you have installed Microsoft Project Central to C:\MyProjectCentral with the account name "sa," the password "ProjectPW," and the database name "Project_CentralDB," and you want to run the German database scripts. The command would be:
   osql -U sa -P ProjectPW -d Project_CentralDB -i C:\MyProjectCentral\Isapi \1031\Insdefsi.sql
   Example 2: You use a remote database, you have installed Microsoft Project Central on a machine called ProjCentralServer to C:\MyProjectCentral with the account name "sa," the password "ProjectPW," and the database name "Project_CentralDB," and you want to run the German database scripts. The command would be:
   osql -U sa -P ProjectPW -d Project_CentralDB -i \\ProjCentralServer
   \C$\MyProjectCentral\Isapi\1031\Insdefsi.sql
   

   Note   The parameter letters U, P, d, and i are case sensitive.

3. Repeat step 2 for all languages you installed during the Language Pack installation. You need to modify the numeric locale ID (1031 in the examples above) for each language when you run the script.

To insert language-specific entries for an Oracle database

1. Start the Oracle Security Manager. When you log on make sure you log on as a user who has unlimited quotas in the Microsoft Project Central database.
2. From Windows, go to the MS-DOS prompt.
3. Change the directory to the Microsoft Project Central Server root folder.
   If you use a remote database, you first need to establish a network connection to the Microsoft Project Central Server computer.
4. Go to the subfolder \Isapi\LCID (where LCID is the numeric locale ID for the language).
5. Type the following command to insert language-specific entries for the tables:
   Insdefoi.sql
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for all languages you installed during the Language Pack installation.

Running the installation again

If the user installation is run again, it goes into maintenance mode. In maintenance mode, users can see what they have or have not installed, and can change these options. They can also fully uninstall the Language Packs. The database scripts won't be uninstalled.

Checking the Language Pack installation

To make sure the installation is working as expected, you can run a quick test. For example, if you have installed Microsoft Project Central Language Pack for Italian on top of your original English installation:

1. Go to a computer with Microsoft Internet Explorer installed.
2. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options, and then click the General tab.
3. Click Languages.
4. If Italian is available in the Languages list, click Move Up to move it to the top of the list.
5. If not, click Add, select Italian, and click Move Up to move it to the top of the list.
6. Click OK twice.
   Now when you go to Microsoft Project Central, you should see the page in Italian.

Repeat this test for other languages you want to check.

Notes

• If you have a non-English version of Microsoft Project Central Server, don't choose that language when you run the Language Pack installation. Installing a Language Pack in the same language as the Server will do no harm, but uninstalling the Language Pack may cause problems.
• Special note on Hebrew: With the Hebrew Language Pack, pages will not be displayed in Hebrew. However, the Hebrew Language Pack will display the dates, times, and durations in Hebrew.