The maintenance of the content on an intranet or corporate portal is already complicated enough. If this requirement is the one offering the multilingual content, you need a good content management system that will decrease much work as possible. Now, SharePoint is a pure content management system, but does not offer many features to build a corporate intranet (or even a website) with very little effort, enable, and also, when pages must be made available in several languages.

With the new version of SharePoint 2010 product use is a multilingual still further simplified. So users could also in SharePoint 2007 have already select a language, if appropriate language (eg English and German were installed). This user had then either an English or German SharePoint environment, but no parallel in both languages usable website.

Automatic Switch language

New in the next version of SharePoint 2010 product, however, that other languages can be activated directly in the SharePoint environment. This standard translations from the SharePoint environment to be taken after each language. The good news: depending on the browser settings appear the SharePoint site directly in the right language, with English settings, a user receives a message language, with setting "German" everything seems in accordance with German.

Even the menu navigation for the web pages or web part settings are adjusted accordingly. And also the menu on any sub can be adjusted continuously by entering a central translation. It remains to adapt the own-content, this course must still be merged multilingual. For this purpose the known variations from SharePoint 2007 API available.

The essential message is that creating and maintaining multilingual SharePoint Sites with SharePoint 2010 will be much easier. As the whole is simple, beautiful shows a demo video of Steffen Krause you in the Technet blog at http://edge.technet.com/Media/SharePoint-2010-Mehrsprachigkeit/ find.