Installing New Languages
To get Windows Server 2008 in your own language you have the option to install Multilingual User Interface Language Packs. Currently the following languages are available for Windows Server 2008 (x86/x64): English, German, Japanese, French, Spanish, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Russian, Portuguese (Portugal), Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Hungarian, Arabic, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hebrew, Greek, Thai, Ukrainian, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian Latin, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian.
1. First you have to download the language pack from here for Windows Server 2008 SP1 or from here for Windows Server 2008 SP2.
2. Mount the downloaded .img (cd image) with cd emulation software like Daemon Tools. (Rightclick the Daemon Tools icon in the Systray -> Virtual CD/DVD-ROM -> Device 0: [E:] Empty -> Click Mount Image. In the Files of type dropdown list select All Files (*.*), then select your languagepack.img file)
3. In the Start menu click Control Panel.
- If you use the Modern View click Change Display Language in the Clock, Language and Region section.
- If you use the Classic View, doubleclick Regional and Language Options and go to tab Keyboards and Languages.
Click the Install/uninstall languages button.
4. At the Install or Uninstall Display Languages page click Install Languages.
5. At the Select the languages to install page click Browse and browse in your Virtual CD/DVD-ROM device to the folder langpacks. Click the language you want to install and click Select Folder.
6. Verify the language you want to install and click Next.
7. Review the Microsoft Software License Terms. If you accept them select I accept the license terms and click Next.
8. Click the Install button!
9. Get a cup of coffee while installing, it will take a while.
10. After the installation has finished you can optionally directly change your own language to the one you installed and also apply it for all other accounts on this computer.
11. I love my native language! 
April 10th, 2008 at 12:26 am
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April 10th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Unfortunately the page with these language packs is not available…
April 12th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
The Microsoft’s Language Pack page is available again
Arris: Thats great! Looks like they added several new languages.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I can’t do it!
Windows doesn’t recognize it… :\
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
In fact, I had installed a crack, I think is it, how do I uninstall?
It simulates the win vista, I hate this!
I need to buy a key…
If anyone knows how uninstall this, I appreciated…
May 5th, 2008 at 8:58 am
What if one does not want to change the UI, but simply wants an additional input language?
Arris: I can’t explain better how to add additional input languages than this article on Microsoft.com!
May 11th, 2008 at 8:26 am
I tink jof has downloaded a wrong img file and tried to install it.
Maybe like trying to install 64bit lp pack on the x86 system.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:36 am
I have same problem as jof has. I downloaded/tried both (x86/x64) language packs and it won’t recognize the languages. Maybe those has to be installed before using crack.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Hmm, I tried with virtual PC to install those language packs after installing Server2008 (without crack), but I still have the same problem with it. What would be the problem?
June 6th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Aah, my bad. Only thing to do is to click that Select folder-button and it recognizes the language file in folder.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:29 am
Admin,
Windows Server 2008 x86 (32bit)
Arabic, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hebrew, Greek, Thai, Ukrainian, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian Latin, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian
6001.18000.080118-1840_x86fre_Server_LP_6-KRMSLP6_DVD.img
is missing from the list.
Arris: You are right, thanks!
Weird that I never noticed it…
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I had trouble mounting the img for swedish language with Daemon Tools.
The mounted virtual disk was corrupt and Windows Server 2008 could only load the Italian pack that is a part of the same img file.
I solved it by burning the img file with Nero onto a DVD. I created a cue file with the following.
————-
FILE “<filename>.img” BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
————-
October 20th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Great! but annoying to download 1 GB just to use 250 MB.. I just dont understand microsoft here :S
January 1st, 2009 at 7:49 pm
People, anyone had problem to installing the language pack?
I downloaded my LP “6001.18000.080118-1840_amd64fre_Server_LP_2-KRMSLPX2_DVD.img”, mount with Daemon Tools and select the directory where my language pack (ex.: “F:\langpacks\pt-br”). However, I receive the message:
“No languages packs found”
Anyone had the same problem? I´m using Windows Server 2008 Standard w/ SP1 and activated it too.
Thanks for any help!!!
Arris: Did you take a look at this topic at the forum?
February 20th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Fabio; could be that you downloaded a pack for the 64bit version instead of the 32bit or vice versa.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:57 am
hiii
i’ve tried this it works perfectly but in my case i didn’t use image drive i have just burn that .img to black dvd and it works perfectly for me,
Thanks for posting dude!
cheers
March 28th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
You shoud dirct the folder to langpacks to find ALL languages
Arris: Didn’t know that, thanks for the tip, will include it next time!
July 1st, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Excellent YouTube post ! thanks for sharing. I’ll be adding your blog to my reader.
Juan
July 15th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I Can’t install this language pack on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP2 x64. Anybody know why?
July 15th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
I find a solution for ws2008 sp2. You need to download language from this location:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3a7fb7a2-3519-495b-9bc5-2007082ca9a6
Arris: Thanks for answering your own question. I updated the post!
December 14th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Great article!!!
Arris: Thank you! I’m glad you like it!