After switching tenant to English, default policies still show non‑English text

Question

After switching tenant to English, default policies still show non‑English text

Cyprian Gomes 0

Our Azure tenant was initially created with the portal language set to a non‑English locale. The environment has since been standardized to English, and all custom resources and policy assignments are now named in English.

However, compliance reports still show non‑ASCII characters tied to initial policy artifacts. We understand that built‑in Azure Policy definitions have fixed names that cannot be renamed. Still, the presence of non‑ASCII text in system metadata and display fields creates inconsistency in our audit outputs, which must be fully English‑standardized.

We are using built‑in policies such as:

Block legacy authentication
Multifactor authentication for admin
Multifactor authentication for all users
Multifactor authentication for Azure Management

Is there any mechanism to clear or reset non‑ASCII language artifacts from policy metadata or display fields after a tenant’s language context has changed?

Thanks for your help.

Комментариев: 0

Ответы: 2

Ваш ответ

Answer 1

Cyprian Gomes 0

Hello. Can anyone help us?

Комментариев: 0

Answer 2

Hello.

We engaged Microsoft Support regarding this issue. They confirmed that the built-in system policy definitions locked with the initial localized characters could not be renamed or updated directly from our end.

To resolve the inconsistency in our audit outputs, the following actions were taken:

Policy Duplication: We duplicated the affected default policies and explicitly assigned them standardized English names and metadata.
Support Intervention: A formal support ticket was opened with Microsoft, and their engineering team successfully removed the original, non-English default policy artifacts from the tenant.

The environment is now fully compliant with our English-only reporting standards, and the task is complete.