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Sas Add-in for Microsoft office, installation error in office 365 / windows10 : Culture is not supported


Migrating to Windows 10 on a desktop and doing a clean install of SAS V94 SAS_Add-In_for_Microsoft_Office_Independent_Installer.

After launching Excell I got the following error message :

Exception information

Exception type: System.Globalization.CultureNotFoundException Message: Culture is not supported. Parameter name: culture 3072 (0x0c00) is an invalid culture identifier.

Source: mscorlib Target Site: InitializeFromCultureId

Stack Trace: at System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InitializeFromCultureId(Int32 culture, Boolean useUserOverride) at System.Globalization.CultureInfo..ctor(Int32 culture, Boolean useUserOverride)

at SAS.OfficeAddin.Global.SwitchThreadUICulture(Object app)

at SAS.OfficeAddin.Connect.CreateAddIn()

at SAS.ExcelAddIn.VstoExcelAddIn.CreateAddIn()

Configuration Details

SAS Software :

SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office version: 8.0 (8.0.0.1995) (32-bit) SAS System version: 9405.100.22960.39165 SAS System Command: c:\sas\v94\sasfoundation\9.4\sas.exe -config c:\sas\v94\sasfoundation\9.4\sasv9.cfg -objectserver -nologo -noterminal -noprngetlist SAS Shared Files: C:\sas\v94\x86 JMP Installation:

Operating System :

Name: Unknown Version: 10.0.0.17763 Service pack: No Service Pack Installed .NET Runtime Version: 4.0.30319.42000 (no service pack)

Add-In for Microsoft Office 8.0 :

Installed location: C:\sas\v94\x86\SASAddInforMicrosoftOffice\8\ Service pack level: 8.0 Installed languages: English


Solution

  • This installation error seems to be caused by the differences in culture setting between Windows 10 and office 365.

    Compare the Windows 10 languages : Control Panel, Region, Language preferences With Office 365 : Open e.g. Excel, File, Options, Language, Choose Editing Languages

    Adding a missing language to Excell solved the installation problem. After that Sas continued and completed the installation succesfully.

    I am not completely sure this is the exact cause. But at least it solved the problem.