Solid Edge Shortcut names in the program group of the Start menu in English after a German silent installation

The names of the shortcuts in the Solid Edge ST10 program group of the Windows Start Menu are in English after running a German silent installation via the msiexec command.

example msiexec command:


msiexec /i "Y:\Siemens\SolidEdge\SE_German\ST10_GER\Solid_Edge_DVD_GERMAN__ST10\DVD\Solid Edge\Solid Edge ST10.msi" MYTEMPLATE=5 USERFILESPEC="D:\temp\SELicense.dat" INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\Solid Edge ST10" /qn+ /l*v "D:\temp\msiexec.log"

Resulting program group:

Solution

The solution is to add a parameter named TRANSFORMS to the msiexec command to specify the desired language.

Syntax of the msiexec command:
msiexec /i "<path to MSI>\Solid Edge ST10.msi" TRANSFORMS="<path to MSI>\<language ID>.mst"

The supported language transforms are:

CHINESE-PRC 2052.mst
CHINESET    1028.mst
CZECH       1029.mst
ENGLISH     1033.mst
FRENCH      1036.mst
GERMAN      1031.mst
HUNGARIAN   1038.mst
ITALIAN     1040.mst
JAPANESE    1041.mst
KOREAN      1042.mst
POLISH      1045.mst
PORTUGUESEB 1046.mst
RUSSIAN     1049.mst
SPANISH     1034.mst

example msiexec command:

msiexec /i "Y:\Siemens\SolidEdge\SE_German\ST10_GER\Solid_Edge_DVD_GERMAN__ST10\DVD\Solid Edge\Solid Edge ST10.msi" TRANSFORMS="Y:\Siemens\SolidEdge\SE_German\ST10_GER\Solid_Edge_DVD_GERMAN__ST10\DVD\Solid Edge\1031.mst" MYTEMPLATE=5 USERFILESPEC="D:\temp\SELicense.dat" INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\Solid Edge ST10" /qn+ /l*v "D:\temp\msiexec.log"

Resulting program group:

Notes and References

 

Hardware/Software Configuration

Platform: INTL64
OS: window
OS Version: 764SP1
Product: SOLID_EDGE
Application: SETUP
Version: V110.0
Function: INSTALL

Ref: 001-8971366