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15Aug/080

Installing multiple language packs for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Yes, I do some MOSS 2K7 stuff too.  By default you MOSS install will come in English if like me you get the north American releases. But in world of multinational companies, displaying information in several languages is somehow a must!

Here is what you want to do to get MOSS to be multilingual.

First, you want to check that you meet the prerequisite: Additional Language File Support.

  1. On your front-end Web server, click Start, point to Settings and then Control Panel, and then click Regional and Language Options.
  2. In the Regional and Language Options dialog box, on the Languages tab, in the Supplemental Language Support section, select one or both of the following check boxes:
    Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages
    Install files for East Asian languages
  3. Click OK in the dialog box that alerts you that additional disk space is required for the files.
  4. Click OK to install the additional language files.
  5. When prompted, insert your Windows Server 2003 product disc or provide the location of your Windows Server 2003 installation files.
  6. When prompted to restart your computer, click Yes.

Then you want to install the following components in the following order for each language:

(Use the change language drop down to choose different language’s language pack download)

  1. WSS Language pack (SharePointLanguagePack.exe)
  2. WSS Language pack SP1 (SharePoint.exe)
  3. MOSS Language pack ( extract *.IMG file)
  4. MOSS Language pack SP1 (officelp2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-it-it.exe)

Warning and remarks! The only bad thing about all this is that you need to know all this before you start creating Site Collections because you can install new site in languages you later installed. I have learned that!

Also you may need to update WSS to SP1 prior going to step 2 as described in kb945967. Find it here.

The other bad thing about SharePoint is that you have to do the install on each "role" server of the farm. I wish there will be some central update managemet for SharePoint sometime soon!

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19Jun/080

New 70-620

microsoft certified professionalToday after a half day study about the now-not-so-new OS from the all mighty corporation Microsoft, I decided to write my exam for Vista more precisely: 70-620: Configure and Install Vista.

Well I don't think it is a hard exam according to the study material I have, a bit of hands on should do the trick. So initial after a short period of study time I register for the exam that should take 2h30 and now it looks like this very same exam I studied for it now 4h!

How come an exam like that change from 2 to 4h in length? as said earlier it seems that the all mighty do whatever they want MSFT corp changed the exam. So I imagine plenty of scenarios of what they could have change from the current syllabus and how they might have made this exams tougher.

Indeed, it is longer (4h) and has more questions (64 vs 40) but as it is new and that MSFT uses Prometric to administrate exams, there are some glitches. All the active exhibit and probably other nice feature do not work.

Help Help - unknow file type and others errors when trying to open the exhibits necessary to answer the question #1. Prometric personal on this center on alert, but for now i am just waiting.

Waiting for hours (yes, hours; 2) for them to find out that it cannot be fixed fast and that it is a global issue, they messed the programing to support the brand new MSFT exam...eventhough they just pass the ball around to MSFT and then MSFT does the same. Who's fault is it, I would say Prometric but they say it is MSFT.

So I am not even able to tell what changed from the previous version I have heard of and this one, I never was able to even read the first full question!

Nonetheless, I waste an afternoon and I have achieve nothing but emptiness. What is next? A voucher to take this exam later. To be frank they offered me to write the exam tomorrow but I guess I will wait for all the glitches to disappear and take this exam, new longer tougher 70-620

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