While performing an administrative installation of Exceed 7.1 and trying to apply the 7.1.0.2 patch to that install, users may receive the following error,
"Error 2803.Hummingbird Exceed must be installed by running setup.exe or by applying a language transform file (Eg.1033.mst) Windows Installer could not find dialog SetupError"

SOLUTION:

This is very common problem. It involves having Windows Installer version 2.0 installed on the machine. In this version the merging of the language transform and the MSI does not occur correctly during the Admininstrative Copy Installation. To fix this, user needs the AdminFixMSI.mst from the XP patch located on the Hummingbird Update site (http://www.hummingbird.com/hummingbirdupdate/).

The Administrative installation then can be recreated using this transform and the problem should then be solved.

The workaround is that the user can copy the appropriate language .MST file from the CD source to the directory where it stores the Administrative Copy and use "msiexec" to launch the install.

msiexec /i "Hummingbird Exceed.msi" TRANSFORMS=1033.mst