Microsoft Dynamics CRM availability in various languages

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 as of today ie 1st July 2011 is available in 41 global languages.

It also means if you have users spread across the globe they can access single CRM instance in their preferred language. This comes along with the package, on premise or online with no additonal cost.

1. Arabic
2. Basque
3. Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
4. Catalan
5. Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R)
6. Chinese (PRC)
7. Chinese (Taiwan)
8. Croatian (Croatia)
9. Czech
10. Danish
11. Dutch
12. English
13. Estonian (Estonia)
14. Finnish
15. French
16. Galician (Galician)
17. German
18. Greek
19. Hebrew
20. Hindi (India)
21. Hungarian
22. Italian
23. Japanese
24. Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
25. Korean
26. Latvian (Latvia)
27. Lithuanian (Lithuania)
28. Norwegian (Bokmål)
29. Polish
30. Portuguese (Brazil)
31. Portuguese (Portugal)
32. Romanian (Romania)
33. Russian
34. Serbian (Latin, Serbia)
35. Slovak (Slovakia)
36. Slovenian (Slovenia)
37. Spanish
38. Swedish
39. Thai
40. Turkish
41. Ukrainian (Ukraine)

Below steps shows you how to install additional language packs or how to add additional language for the end users.

For online version the langague packs are already installed and all you have to do is navigate to settings>> systems>> administration>> Language and select required languages.

On premise version you have install a languauge pack, that can be downloaded from below link.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=20023

Once installed navigate to settings>> systems>> administration>> Language.
Check the applied and click on apply button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once done, the end users can select relavent language themselves by selecting 

File>> options>> in pop up window >> languages.

Click on the drop down to select the relavent language.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But the above mentioned solution does not work for your outlook client. For outlook client language pack, download from below link

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11059

 

There is one key factor you may need to consider is, though the labels will be translated into user language the data will not be translated because of data base limitations. So I recommend all the users irrespective of the language pack they use to enter data as per the organization data entry guidelines. This will help in better colloboration and analysis.

 

Also note that any custom labels may not be naturally translated after installing or configuring the language pack. This required little more effort by exporting the WSDL and editing and importing back.

 

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Recently I came across a scenario where a user required CRM  information to show up in dual languages while talking to his customers. I have mapped the scenario in to CRM. Please wait for my next blog posting.

 

Till then bye and happy selling!