Regional Language Options and the Language of Portal Sites

Each server in your server farm must include the regional language options to support the languages of all portal sites on that server.

Languages in a Server Farm

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 supports one language per server farm. The same language version of SharePoint Portal Server must be installed on all servers in the server farm.

All portal sites on the server farm must use the same language. However, other sites, such as SharePoint sites, can use different languages.

To allow creation of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services sites in different languages, install the appropriate language packs for Windows SharePoint Services.

If you install a Windows SharePoint Services language pack and create a SharePoint site in the new language, by default Help in that site will be in the language of the portal site. You can provide help for different-language SharePoint sites in that language by downloading and installing the Help for that language from http://office.microsoft.com/sharepoint.

The downloaded Help consists of a folder named SPS that contains two folders, HTML and Images. Unzip the downloaded file to C:\Program Files\Common\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\ISAPI\Help\language ID\, where language ID is the four-digit code for the language of the Help.

Specific Considerations for Windows SharePoint Services

For more information, see Language Considerations for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

Upgrade Considerations

When you upgrade to SharePoint Portal Server from SharePoint Portal Server 2001, you must upgrade your operating system to Microsoft Windows Server 2003. You must install the same language packs for Windows Server 2003 that were installed with your previous operating system.

Related Topics

Language Considerations for Windows SharePoint Services

Upgrade Considerations