Hi folks, I am new to SharePoint and not a developer by trade. I have created a SharePoint Services 3.0 deployment for our company. We have employees in the US and Mexico. I have a site collection for the US side in English and a Mexico side, also in English. I simply want to localize the Mexico site collection to Spanish. Having spent the last three years managing a Plone intranet here, I am surprised how difficult it seems to be to localize SharePoint. Can anyone tell me what is really the simplest method? Do I really have to move around .resx files? Create site definitions? Create site templates? Do I have to blow up the Mexico side and start over once I get localization enabled? I have installed Language packs for SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 for my Windows Server 2008 R2 install. I have also installed Windows Server 2008 R2 language packs. My first attempt at creating a Spanish language site was using stsadm. The command went something like this: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN>stsadm -o createweb -url http://servername:8080/spanish -lcid 3082." The error returned was: "The language is not supported on the server." The site at 8080 is for development. I have tried the following resources: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102390461033.aspx http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/52f23398-7c46-4b7c-9631-03a20c1f9829/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c6zyy3s9.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee696750%28VS.100%29.aspx (For SP 2010 so I do not think it applies to me.) This seemed like a simple enough thing to do. Do I need to use Visual Studio? Seems like overkill for such a simple internal site. Thank you for your response. Have a wonderful day! J

The reason it is difficult is that you are using the wrong SharePoint product. WSS 3.0 does not include localization, that is only in MOSS 2007. With WSS 3.0 all you can do is add the language packs and with them create (completely new) sites in a different language to the site you installed WSS 3.0 in. There are then no relationships between existing sites and these new sites. Mike Walsh FAQ sites: (SP 2010) http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com; (v3) http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com and (WSS 2.0) http://wssv2faq.mindsharp.com Complete Book Lists (incl. foreign language) on each site.