diff --git a/locales/config.yaml b/locales/config.yaml
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+---
+# This is the project-specific configuration file for setting up
+# fast_gettext for your project.
+gettext:
+  # This is used for the name of the .pot and .po files; they will be
+  # called <project_name>.pot?
+  project_name: puppetlabs-sqlserver
+  # This is used in comments in the .pot and .po files to indicate what
+  # project the files belong to and should bea little more desctiptive than
+  # <project_name>
+  package_name: puppetlabs-sqlserver
+  # The locale that the default messages in the .pot file are in
+  default_locale: en
+  # The email used for sending bug reports.
+  bugs_address: docs@puppet.com
+  # The holder of the copyright.
+  copyright_holder: Puppet, Inc.
+  # This determines which comments in code should be eligible for translation.
+  # Any comments that start with this string will be externalized. (Leave
+  # empty to include all.)
+  comments_tag: TRANSLATOR
+  # Patterns for +Dir.glob+ used to find all files that might contain
+  # translatable content, relative to the project root directory
+  source_files:
+      - 'metadata.json'
+  
diff --git a/locales/puppetlabs-sqlserver.pot b/locales/puppetlabs-sqlserver.pot
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+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2017-03-21 14:19+0100\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"X-Generator: Translate Toolkit 2.0.0\n"
+
+#. metadata.json
+#: .summary
+msgid ""
+"The `sqlserver` module installs and manages MS SQL Server 2012 and 2014 on "
+"Windows systems."
+msgstr ""