You might have had an occasion to add a new column in Network Monitor 3.0. But the list of available choices might be quite daunting. What you may not know, however, is that the list is derived from properties in the NPL script that makes up each parser...

Having worked in Product Support for many years, I’ve had many occasions where a specific Event Log error was showing up, and we wanted to understand how this event related to the problem we were t-shooting. And in some cases, the Event Log error was...

Performance issues are one of the more difficult problems to trouble shoot. Without a baseline, it's often hard to determine if something is really slower. But TCP does contain some built-in behavioral patterns that can be used as a signal to tell you...

One item we are evaluating for future versions of Network Monitor are experts. These are the tools that among other things, allow you to get a high level view of a problem. But using a simple new feature in the released version of NM3 will allow us to...

After many months of hard work we are proud to announce the Release to Web of Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0 (NM3). The final version is available from Microsoft Connects site ( http://connect.microsoft.com ). The Connects site does require you have a...

Conversations for network protocols have been around for ages. But protocol analyzers have not been built to take advantage of them in the way NM3 does. Using the conversation tree and filters that reference conversations, make NM3 a powerful ally when...

OK, I'm not going to blow smoke up your Async port. I don't mean to say that the NMCap is necessarily easy to use, though it's not that hard. But any command line utility always has its quirks. Isn't that why GUI was invented? What NMCap does make...

Challenges of Filtering One of the biggest changes between NM2.x and NM3.0 is the way you do filtering. Old NM2.x hacks may be challenged by the loss of the UI wizard to build filters. On the other hand, Ethereal users may be pleased and further encouraged...

I always found it frustrating to use an application, only to find something didn’t work exactly like I expected it to. And in the world of network sniffers, it seems that I always find a problem with a particular protocol or some output that I wish displayed...

This article was original posted by Yuri Diogenes on http://blogs.technet.com/latam in Spanish. Overview of Network Monitor 3 Beta 2 1. Summary Microsoft is releasing the Beta 2 version of the Network Monitor 3 and we would like to show...

A new era of network sniffing has begun at Microsoft with the soon to be released Network Monitor 3.0. So, it seems appropriate that we create a Network Monitor Blog site to accompany it. [So this is what a Blog feels like, nice!] The Essentials ...