While demonstrating new and cool SharePoint 2010 features to a customer, I wanted to show how easy it is to switch languages on SharePoint 2010 sites, but I was surprised by the following error message:
Figure 1. - This site is based on a site template that does not support alternate languages.
So it seems there are OOTB templates which do not support alternate languages (Supports Multilingual UI). I did some PowerShell magic and here is the list of SharePoint site templates and an indicator that shows if template supports Multilingual UI or not.
| Name | Title | Supports Multilingual UI |
| GLOBAL#0 | Global template |  |
| STS#0 | Team Site | |
| STS#1 | Blank Site | |
| STS#2 | Document Workspace | |
| MPS#0 | Basic Meeting Workspace |  |
| MPS#1 | Blank Meeting Workspace | |
| MPS#2 | Decision Meeting Workspace | |
| MPS#3 | Social Meeting Workspace | |
| MPS#4 | Multipage Meeting Workspace | |
| CENTRALADMIN#0 | Central Admin Site | |
| WIKI#0 | Wiki Site | |
| BLOG#0 | Blog | |
| SGS#0 | Group Work Site | |
| TENANTADMIN#0 | Tenant Admin Site | |
| ACCSRV#0 | Access Services Site | |
| ACCSRV#1 | Assets Web Database | |
| ACCSRV#3 | Charitable Contributions Web Database | |
| ACCSRV#4 | Contacts Web Database | |
| ACCSRV#6 | Issues Web Database | |
| ACCSRV#5 | Projects Web Database | |
| BDR#0 | Document Center | |
| OFFILE#0 | (obsolete) Records Center | |
| OFFILE#1 | Records Center | |
| OSRV#0 | Shared Services Administration Site | |
| PowerPointBroadcast#0 | PowerPoint Broadcast Site | |
| PPSMASite#0 | PerformancePoint | |
| BICenterSite#0 | Business Intelligence Center | |
| PWA#0 | Project Web App Site | |
| PWS#0 | Microsoft Project Site | |
| SPS#0 | SharePoint Portal Server Site | |
| SPSPERS#0 | SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | |
| SPSMSITE#0 | Personalization Site | |
| SPSTOC#0 | Contents area Template | |
| SPSTOPIC#0 | Topic area template | |
| SPSNEWS#0 | News Site | |
| CMSPUBLISHING#0 | Publishing Site | |
| BLANKINTERNET#0 | Publishing Site | |
| BLANKINTERNET#1 | Press Releases Site | |
| BLANKINTERNET#2 | Publishing Site with Workflow | |
| SPSNHOME#0 | News Site | |
| SPSSITES#0 | Site Directory | |
| SPSCOMMU#0 | Community area template | |
| SPSREPORTCENTER#0 | Report Center | |
| SPSPORTAL#0 | Collaboration Portal | |
| SRCHCEN#0 | Enterprise Search Center | |
| PROFILES#0 | Profiles | |
| BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER#0 | Publishing Portal | |
| SPSMSITEHOST#0 | My Site Host | |
| ENTERWIKI#0 | Enterprise Wiki | |
| SRCHCENTERLITE#0 | Basic Search Center | |
| SRCHCENTERLITE#1 | Basic Search Center | |
| SRCHCENTERFAST#0 | FAST Search Center | |
| visprus#0 | Visio Process Repository | |
| SRCHCENTERLITE#1 | Basic Search Center | |
| SRCHCENTERFAST#0 | FAST Search Center | |
| visprus#0 | Visio Process Repository | |
The list above shows all templates installed with English SharePoint 2010 Enterprise + FAST. In case you want to check your own templates, use the following PowerShell code:
cls
if((Get-PSSnapin | Where {$_.Name -eq "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"}) -eq $null) {
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell;
}
#English only templates
Get-SPWebTemplate | Where {$_.LCID -eq 1033} | Select Name, Title, SupportsMultilingualUI
Write-Host "=========================="
#All templates
Get-SPWebTemplate | Select Name, Title, SupportsMultilingualUI
