Deploying Exchange 2010 Languages

[This is pre-release documentation and subject to change in future releases. This topic's current status is: Milestone-Ready.]

Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 Beta* *Topic Last Modified: 2009-04-21

Exchange Server 2010 has language support for servers and clients that is improved from earlier versions of Microsoft Exchange. This topic gives you information about the specific languages that are supported for Exchange 2010.

Supported Server Languages for Exchange 2010

The following table includes information about the availability and language support for Exchange 2010.

Supported server languages for Exchange 2010

Supported Client Languages for Exchange 2010

The following table includes information about the availability and language support for Exchange 2010 client languages.

Supported client languages for Exchange 2010

Exchange 2010 Language Packs

An Exchange 2010 language pack contains the necessary resources for a supported Exchange language. Language packs can be installed during installation of Exchange 2010 or after Exchange 2010 has been deployed.

Client and server language packs come grouped into a single bundle containing both client and server resource and support files. You can automatically download the language packs when you are running Exchange Setup.

For more information on installing language packs, see Perform a Typical Exchange 2010 Installation or Perform a Custom Exchange 2010 Installation.

Unified Messaging Language Packs

These downloads contain pre-recorded prompts, grammar files, text to speech (TTS) data, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) files, and Voice Mail Preview capabilities for a specific language that is supported by Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging.

Unified Messaging (UM) language packs allow an Exchange 2010 UM server to speak additional languages to callers and recognize other languages when callers use ASR or when voice messages are transcribed. UM language packs contain:

• Pre-recorded prompts, for example, "After the tone, please record your message. When you’ve finished recording, hang up, or press the # key for more options." in the language of the UM language pack.
• Grammar files that are used by a UM server to look up the names of given users in the directory in the language of the UM language pack.
• Text to Speech (TTS) translation so that content (for example, e-mail, calendar, contact information) can be read to callers in the language of the UM language pack.
• Support for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), which allows callers to interact with UM using the voice user interface (VUI) in the language of the UM language pack.
• Support for Voice Mail Preview which allows users to read the transcript of voice mail messages in a specific language from within a supported e-mail client such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Web Access.

The U.S. English (en-US) and German (de-DE) UM language packs contain UM prompts, TTS, ASR, and Voice Mail Preview support for these languages.

For this Beta release, the following UM language packs contains UM prompts, TTS, ASR, and Voice Mail Preview, but the ASR and Voice Mail Preview features aren’t supported:

• Spanish (Mexico) – es-MX
• French (Canada) – fr-CA
• Japanese (Japan) – ja-JP