Downloading Trace32 and CMTrace for easy log file reading

I was working with some log file recently (C:\Windows\Logs\cbs\CBS.log to be precise, to troubleshoot an issue I am having on my laptop, which I hope to sort soon and write a blog post about). Initially I was opening the file in notepad but that isn’t a great way of going through log files. Then I remembered at work I use Trace32 from the SCCM 2007 Toolkit. So I downloaded it from Microsoft. Then I learnt Trace32’s been replaced with one called CMTrace in SCCM 2012 R2.

Here’s links to both the toolkits:

For the 2007 toolkit when installing choose the option to only install the Common Tools and skip the rest. That will install only Trace32 at C:\Program Files (x86)\ConfigMgr 2007 Toolkit V2 (add this to your PATH variable for ease of access).

2007-toolkit

For the 2012 R2 toolkit choose the option to install only the Client Tools and skip the rest. That will install CMTrace and a few other tools at C:\Program Files (x86)\ConfigMgr 2012 Toolkit R2\ClientTools (add this too to your PATH variable).

2012-toolkit

That’s all! Happy troubleshooting!