SharePoint 2010 Language Packs available for download
Yesterday MS has released the language packs to the public. What is a language pack?
Language packs enable site owners and site collection administrators to create SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
Word breakers and stemmers enable you to efficiently and effectively search across content on SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Server 2010. Word breakers and stemmers are automatically installed on Web servers by Setup.
The server language packs:
And if you have a plain SharePoint Foundation installation, grab the language pack here:
Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2010
After you install a language pack, you’ll need to rerun the configuration wizard.
And here is an important information which is different from previous versions:
SharePoint Foundation 2010 language packs are not required for SharePoint Server 2010.
Finally. Handling language packs is now much easier 🙂