diff --git a/edgelet/Cargo.lock b/edgelet/Cargo.lock
index 113360388bc..f000c8c127a 100644
--- a/edgelet/Cargo.lock
+++ b/edgelet/Cargo.lock
@@ -798,8 +798,10 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-signal 0.1.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "url 1.7.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "url_serde 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "version-compare 0.0.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "win-logger 0.1.0",
  "windows-service 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "winreg 0.5.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1874,6 +1876,11 @@ name = "vec_map"
 version = "0.8.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "version-compare"
+version = "0.0.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "version_check"
 version = "0.1.3"
@@ -1947,6 +1954,14 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi 0.3.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winreg"
+version = "0.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi 0.3.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "workload"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -2155,6 +2170,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum utf8-ranges 1.0.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "662fab6525a98beff2921d7f61a39e7d59e0b425ebc7d0d9e66d316e55124122"
 "checksum vcpkg 0.2.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "7ed0f6789c8a85ca41bbc1c9d175422116a9869bd1cf31bb08e1493ecce60380"
 "checksum vec_map 0.8.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "887b5b631c2ad01628bbbaa7dd4c869f80d3186688f8d0b6f58774fbe324988c"
+"checksum version-compare 0.0.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "78068add8bf1e4d37d13fa5867182fe4c03f8e525c831053733f83aaba942d37"
 "checksum version_check 0.1.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "6b772017e347561807c1aa192438c5fd74242a670a6cffacc40f2defd1dc069d"
 "checksum void 1.0.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "6a02e4885ed3bc0f2de90ea6dd45ebcbb66dacffe03547fadbb0eeae2770887d"
 "checksum widestring 0.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "a212922ea58fbf5044f83663aa4fc6281ff890f1fd7546c0c3f52f5290831781"
@@ -2165,5 +2181,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu 0.4.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "712e227841d057c1ee1cd2fb22fa7e5a5461ae8e48fa2ca79ec42cfc1931183f"
 "checksum wincolor 0.1.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "eeb06499a3a4d44302791052df005d5232b927ed1a9658146d842165c4de7767"
 "checksum windows-service 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "51cb08429e18f787748343122610b09f50c79f8034627e57faacf37582a709ec"
+"checksum winreg 0.5.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "a27a759395c1195c4cc5cda607ef6f8f6498f64e78f7900f5de0a127a424704a"
 "checksum ws2_32-sys 0.2.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "d59cefebd0c892fa2dd6de581e937301d8552cb44489cdff035c6187cb63fa5e"
 "checksum yaml-rust 0.4.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "57ab38ee1a4a266ed033496cf9af1828d8d6e6c1cfa5f643a2809effcae4d628"
diff --git a/edgelet/iotedged/Cargo.toml b/edgelet/iotedged/Cargo.toml
index 65efee1b348..c75cf8ed687 100644
--- a/edgelet/iotedged/Cargo.toml
+++ b/edgelet/iotedged/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,4 +43,9 @@ win-logger = { path = "../win-logger" }
 
 [dev_dependencies]
 tempdir = "0.3.7"
+
 edgelet-test-utils = { path = "../edgelet-test-utils" }
+
+[target.'cfg(windows)'.build-dependencies]
+winreg = "0.5.1"
+version-compare = "0.0.6"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/edgelet/iotedged/build.rs b/edgelet/iotedged/build.rs
index 31001e28cb3..9a8cdef133a 100644
--- a/edgelet/iotedged/build.rs
+++ b/edgelet/iotedged/build.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,87 @@
+// Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.
+#[cfg(windows)]
+extern crate version_compare;
+#[cfg(windows)]
+extern crate winreg;
+
 fn main() {
     #[cfg(windows)]
-    {
-        let current_dir = ::std::env::var("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR").unwrap();
-        println!(
-            "cargo:rustc-link-search=all={}\\src\\resources",
-            current_dir,
-        );
+    windows::main()
+}
+
+#[cfg(windows)]
+mod windows {
+    use std::cmp::Ordering;
+    use std::env;
+    use std::fs;
+    use std::io::Result;
+    use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+    use std::process::Command;
+
+    use version_compare::comp_op::CompOp;
+    use version_compare::VersionCompare;
+    use winreg::enums::*;
+    use winreg::RegKey;
+
+    pub fn main() {
+        // on windows we only support x64 at this time
+        let target_arch = env::var("CARGO_CFG_TARGET_ARCH").unwrap();
+        if target_arch != "x86_64" {
+            panic!("Only x64 architecture is supported on Windows at this time.");
+        }
+
+        let sdk_bin_root = get_sdk_bin_root().expect("Could not get Windows SDK root bin path");
+        let mc_path = sdk_bin_root.join("mc.exe");
+        let rc_path = sdk_bin_root.join("rc.exe");
+        let out_dir = env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap();
+
+        Command::new(mc_path.to_str().unwrap())
+            .args(&[
+                "-r",
+                &out_dir,
+                "-h",
+                &out_dir,
+                "src\\resources\\event_messages.mc",
+            ])
+            .status()
+            .expect("Message compilation failed");
+
+        let rc_source_path = Path::new(&out_dir).join("event_messages.rc");
+        Command::new(rc_path.to_str().unwrap())
+            .args(&[rc_source_path.to_str().unwrap()])
+            .status()
+            .expect("Resource compilation failed");
+
+        fs::rename(
+            Path::new(&out_dir).join("event_messages.res"),
+            Path::new(&out_dir).join("event_messages.res.lib"),
+        ).expect("Rename of event_messages.res failed");
+
+        println!("cargo:rustc-link-search=all={}", out_dir);
         println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=event_messages.res");
     }
+
+    fn get_sdk_bin_root() -> Result<PathBuf> {
+        let hklm = RegKey::predef(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE);
+        let installed_roots =
+            hklm.open_subkey("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows Kits\\Installed Roots")?;
+        let max_version = installed_roots
+            .enum_keys()
+            .map(|v| v.unwrap())
+            .max_by(|v1, v2| comp_op_to_ordering(VersionCompare::compare(v1, v2).unwrap()))
+            .unwrap();
+
+        let kits_root: String = installed_roots.get_value("KitsRoot10").unwrap();
+        let install_root = Path::new(&kits_root);
+
+        Ok(install_root.join("bin").join(max_version).join("x64"))
+    }
+
+    fn comp_op_to_ordering(op: CompOp) -> Ordering {
+        match op {
+            CompOp::Eq | CompOp::Le | CompOp::Ge => Ordering::Equal,
+            CompOp::Lt | CompOp::Ne => Ordering::Less,
+            CompOp::Gt => Ordering::Greater,
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/edgelet/iotedged/src/resources/MSG00001.bin b/edgelet/iotedged/src/resources/MSG00001.bin
deleted file mode 100644
index 99fc3cb038d..00000000000
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diff --git a/edgelet/iotedged/src/resources/event_messages.rc b/edgelet/iotedged/src/resources/event_messages.rc
deleted file mode 100644
index 0abcb0fa2c5..00000000000
--- a/edgelet/iotedged/src/resources/event_messages.rc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-LANGUAGE 0x9,0x1
-1 11 "MSG00001.bin"
diff --git a/edgelet/iotedged/src/resources/event_messages.res.lib b/edgelet/iotedged/src/resources/event_messages.res.lib
deleted file mode 100644
index a6d89738440..00000000000
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