diff --git a/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson b/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson
index 655eb258615f..e51b2c232873 100644
--- a/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson
+++ b/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
   "loc.messages.EncodingNotSupported": "Encoding of the file '%s' is '%s' which is not supported. Supported file encodings are ['utf-8', 'utf-16le']",
   "loc.messages.CouldNotDetectEncoding": "Could not detect encoding of file '%s'",
   "loc.messages.DetectedFileEncoding": "The detected encoding for file '%s' is '%s'",
-  "loc.messages.ErrorWhileParsingParameter": "There was an error while overriding '%s' parameter because of '%s', make sure it follows JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)",
+  "loc.messages.ErrorWhileParsingParameter": "The provided metadata file '%s'  is missing metadata of parameter '%s'",
   "loc.messages.TemplateFilePatternMatchingMoreThanOneFile": "Found multiple files matching template file pattern: %s",
   "loc.messages.TemplateParameterFilePatternMatchingMoreThanOneFile": "Found multiple files matching template parameters file pattern: %s",
   "loc.messages.TemplateFilePatternMatchingNoFile": "Could not find any file matching the template file pattern",
diff --git a/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/operations/Utils.ts b/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/operations/Utils.ts
index 4296265b5a82..2fedf987b90a 100644
--- a/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/operations/Utils.ts
+++ b/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/operations/Utils.ts
@@ -370,8 +370,8 @@ class Utils {
 
             try {
                 overrideParameter.value = this.castToType(overrideParameter.value, template.parameters[overrideParameter.name].type);
-            } catch (error) {
-                console.log(tl.loc("ErrorWhileParsingParameter", overrideParameter.name, error.toString()));
+            } catch (error) {                
+                tl.error(tl.loc("ErrorWhileParsingParameter", taskParameters.csmFile, overrideParameter.name));
             }
             parameters[overrideParameter.name] = {
                 value: overrideParameter.value
diff --git a/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/task.json b/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/task.json
index 1a23c923f541..18f157490976 100644
--- a/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/task.json
+++ b/Tasks/AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3/task.json
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@
     "EncodingNotSupported": "Encoding of the file '%s' is '%s' which is not supported. Supported file encodings are ['utf-8', 'utf-16le']",
     "CouldNotDetectEncoding": "Could not detect encoding of file '%s'",
     "DetectedFileEncoding": "The detected encoding for file '%s' is '%s'",
-    "ErrorWhileParsingParameter": "There was an error while overriding '%s' parameter because of '%s', make sure it follows JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)",
+    "ErrorWhileParsingParameter":  "The provided metadata file '%s'  is missing metadata of parameter '%s'",
     "TemplateFilePatternMatchingMoreThanOneFile": "Found multiple files matching template file pattern: %s",
     "TemplateParameterFilePatternMatchingMoreThanOneFile": "Found multiple files matching template parameters file pattern: %s",
     "TemplateFilePatternMatchingNoFile": "Could not find any file matching the template file pattern",