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When you sign in to Microsoft 365, or your organization’s corporate SharePoint Server site, click SharePoint or Sites in the app launcher navigation or top bar. These are your entry points into SharePoint.
Where are my SharePoint files stored locally?
When you use an Office program to check out a file from a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site, the file is stored by default on your hard disk in a drafts folder that is in your My Documents folder.
Essentially, SharePoint Server is a locally-hosted platform that the user organization owns and operates themselves. With SharePoint Server, users are responsible for running and maintaining everything internally, including server architecture, active directory, and file storage.
What is the difference between SharePoint Online and SharePoint?
SharePoint Server is a locally-hosted platform that your company owns and operates. You’ll be responsible for everything from server architecture, active directory, all the way down to file storage. SharePoint Online is a cloud-based service provided directly from Microsoft.
Localization – or showing users with different language preferences content in their preferred language – is not SharePoint’s strongest suite. It never was, and probably will never be, unless Microsoft perfects Machine Translation at some point.
How many languages can I localize in SharePoint?
You can enable any number of the languages that SharePoint has built-in (that’s some 40 languages, some of which have multiple character sets available). This enables things that Microsoft has put in place to be localized, but for the most part, your content will be left untouched.
SharePoint offers a multitude of ways profile content based on user language (or other properties), but none of the solutions are fool proof. This post describes how to fetch only localized results from SharePoint Search index, which solves at least some of the issues. Description SharePoint Search index can be used in quite a few different ways.
Is there a multilingual user interface in SharePoint?
SharePoint has had a feature called Multilingual User Interface (MUI) at least from SharePoint 2010. In on-premises installations, it requires language packs to be installed, but in SharePoint Online it’s quite straightforward to use. It’s fairly automatic, so as long as you have the language packs installed, the feature “just works”.