14 DAY TRIAL // New resources from Microsoft allow customers that plan to leverage the product lineup that is part of the Office 2010 launch to take advantage of multiple language options across their deployments. The 2010 Server Language Packs for SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010 are currently available for download at no charge, allowing customers to build sites and site collections in multiple languages. The actual label of the language packs is rather self-explanatory when it comes down to the technologies that users will be able to employ in concert with the new technologies.
“Multiple language packs can be installed on the same server. Application of a Language Pack will not change the language of the installed Microsoft server product, or the language of the administrative features,” Microsoft stated. “You do not need to download a language pack for the language you installed, these language packs are to support creation of additional languages.”
SharePoint 2010, Project 2010, Search Server 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010 were released to manufacturing concomitantly with Office 2010 on April 15th. One interesting aspect in this regard is related to Office Web Apps 2010. In this particular case, only the flavor of the Office 2010 Cloud components designed for on-premise deployments on top of SharePoint 2010 were actually RTM’d. Microsoft is still working on finalizing the free online version that is offered through Windows Live SkyDrive, and will probably do so with the RTW of Windows Live Wave 4.
In addition to the resources mentioned above, the Redmond company is also offering for download Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2010. “Language packs enable creation of sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Foundation 2010,” the software giant stated.
2010 Server Language Packs for SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010 is available for download here.
Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2010 is available for download here.