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MSI setup cannot transformed with MST

I have downloaded MSI setup from http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.2.6/win32/vlc-2.2.6.msi

Than I tried to transform this with an MST file to get rid of shortcuts and a few features. However if I apply the MST later I get serious errors and this MST fails. I tried this with MS Orca and InstEd.

  1. MS Orca does not display an error, but if you add it to the Group Policy in Active Directory the MST fail and cannot saved.

  2. InstEd complains when it applies the MST directly.

Repro:

  1. Open MSI
  2. Create MST
  3. Go into "Feature" table and change "Level" to 10 for WEBPLUGINS, ACTIVEX, MOZILLA
  4. Save MST
  5. Try to add to GPO - FAILS.

I'm attaching my MST as example.

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