Over the last couple of years, I have been using this method to extract the status messages for various components in Configuration Manager such as SMS provider, Site server and client.
These status messages critical and useful when it comes to troubleshooting the components, clients etc. Status messages are similar to Windows NT Events and they have a severity, ID, description, etc.
These status messages ID appear in lot of places like logs, event viewer,configuration manager console. During the troubleshooting, it is hard to find out the description for the status message ID that you looking for and not everything can be found on the internet during the search.
As the current branch gets released every 3 months (based on the past trends), there will be changes to the status message IDs (addition/deletion) and it is always important to keep a copy of the status message ID’s for each build that you are working with.
In this blog post, we will see how to generate the status message IDs, description for your Configuration Manager build.
What is required to generate the status messages?
1. You will need the following dll files that are available in your your CAS/Primary site server for your current build
CLIMSGS.DLL
PROVMSGS.DLL
SRVMSGS.DLL
These dll files located in your site server location: <CM Installed directory:>\bin\X64\system32\smsmsgs
2. Copy these dll files to a folder on your computer.
3. Now download the script from Github, save it in the same folder where you copied the dll files.
4. Run the script. The script will create an excel file with 3 sheets called client, site server and sms provider and list down the status message ID’s along with description.
5. Output
Every time when you update your Configuration Manager build version, you can get the updated dll files and run the script.
I hope you found this useful.
References:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Enumerate-status-message-6e7e1761