This week I was assigned to Install MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Services) 2007 over WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) 3.0.
The thing i’ve never thought it would be a trouble was the fact that my WSS was english and my MOSS was Portuguese. When I installed MOSS, over WSS, it all look like that was ok, but, when any item of a list went to be edited, the feature was broken. It repeated in all other sites, in all other lists.
To make it useful again, I’ve deactivated the Spell Checker Service. It’s a workaround, and doesn’t solve the problem. When a feature of MOSS 2007 is seen, the name is messy.
Solution: Install the Language Pack feature.
Update: The language pack really makes some critical features to work, but doesn’t solve all the problems. If you are going to create a new site part, you’ll see that the web part names are all messy. In a lack of a better solution, backup all the sites, uninstall SharePoint, install it again correctly, then restore again the sites. This really is gonna work.
