Network Monitor

Message Analyzer has released!

Thought I should mention here that Message Analyzer has released. Read the full story on our Message...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 10/02/2013

Message Analyzer Beta 2 has Released!

Check out more information on the Message Analyzer release blog here. Or go right straight to...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 02/15/2013

Message Analyzer Beta has Released!!!

Please read our post on our new Message Analyzer blog.

Author: Paul E Long Date: 09/19/2012

Lex Thomas Talks about Troubleshooting with Network Monitor

Lex Thomas is a Principal Technical Account Manager for the US Premier Support Services Team at...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 01/06/2012

Microsoft Protocol Test Suites Available

We recently released a set of Microsoft Protocol Test Suites. OK it was a month ago, but we’ve...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 08/15/2011

NMTopProtocols Expert Released

Michael A. Hawker is the Program Manager for Network Monitor. His focus has been on the API, UI, and...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 04/18/2011

NMTopUsers Expert: Community to the Rescue

We have some great new updates for the Top Users expert! But this time, I had nothing to do with...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 03/22/2011

NMDecrypt Expert Updates - Version 2.3

When I first wrote about NMDecrypt Expert in this blog I mentioned some limitations. There have also...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 03/03/2011

Open Source Freedom for Network Monitor Experts

We are excited to announce that we have moved 3 Network Monitor Expert projects and the Network...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 02/10/2011

Windows Phone 7 Connectivity Issues and Smart Potato

Smart Potato is an application that allows you to access and manage your Media Center recordings and...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 01/17/2011

Filtering On Timestamps

There are situations when you want to narrow a trace down to a certain time frame. However, creating...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 12/21/2010

New Videos for Advanced Filtering and 3.4 UI Features

You folks have been asking for updated videos about filtering and now I’ve made two more...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 12/01/2010

Reassembly Made Easier

By using our latest 3.4.2455 release of the parsers and using a simple filter, you can now view...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 11/04/2010

Marking Frames with Network Monitor 3.4

Marking frames is a convenient way to temporarily flag a location in the trace you wish to keep...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 10/14/2010

Network Monitor Freezes While Loading Capture

If you encounter a situation where Network Monitor freezes while opening a capture file, try...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 09/30/2010

Trouble Accessing Some Fields with API

With the Network Monitor API you can access any field by adding its path and then accessing the...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 08/24/2010

Using High Performance Filtering

There are certain scenarios where the High Performance Filtering feature added in Netmon 3.4 will...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 08/05/2010

Using Color Rules to Show Direction

By Jin Feng Differentiating client requests and server responses can provide a clear-cut view and...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 07/28/2010

Blog Makeover: Network Monitor Landing Page

We’ve redesigned the Network Monitor Blog in order to make it easier to find resources that...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 07/12/2010

Network Monitor 3.4 has Released!

I’m proud to announce the release of Network Monitor 3.4 to the Microsoft Download center....

Author: Paul E Long Date: 06/28/2010

Reducing Dropped Frames with Network Monitor 3.4

by Darren J. Fisher – Network Monitor Development Lead Capturing network traffic is actually a...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 06/23/2010

Parser Profiles in Network Monitor 3.4

Parser Profiles are a new feature available in our 3.4 Beta. Rich parsers provide detailed...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 06/04/2010

Network Monitor 3.4 Beta Released on Connect!

We are extremely excited to announce that the Network Monitor 3.4 Beta has released on Connect. If...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 04/29/2010

Office Parsers Available

A new set of parsers for decoding office protocols is now available on the download center. These...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 04/05/2010

Network Monitor Parsers and the CodePlex Foundation

The Network Monitor Parser project is now part of the Systems Infrastructure & Integration...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 03/22/2010

Expert to Decrypt TLS/SSL Traffic

One of the most popular requests we've had is to provide a way to view encrypted traffic. The new...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 03/08/2010

Measuring Response Times

It's often useful to understand how long it takes for a request to get responded to. This helps you...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 02/24/2010

Annotated Traces for Windows System Behavior

Microsoft publishes protocol documentation on MSDN that is intended to make it easier for others to...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 01/08/2010

SMB2 Data Fields and Properties

Properties: Property.SMBFileIDPersistent - For SMB2, the file ID can be one of two types. This...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 01/07/2010

IPv4 Data Fields and Properties

Fields:IPv4.Address - Useful for filtering on an address independent of the...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 01/07/2010

Capturing a Trace at Boot Up

Capturing a trace during a boot is a common task that can be difficult to accomplish. In fact the...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 01/04/2010

No Frames Captured Due to Disk Quota

In certain instances, you start a capture and no frames are captured. Or perhaps the UI suddenly...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 11/23/2009

When You Can't Save Frames From the UI

You might have run into an occasion when doing a capture from the UI that you are unable to save...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 11/16/2009

Adapters Are Missing After Upgrading to Windows 7

If you have just upgraded to Windows 7, you might notice that you no longer see any adapters listed...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 10/23/2009

Reassembling Packets with the Network Monitor API

Network traffic by nature is fragmented. Limits of various network packet sizes force protocols to...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 10/12/2009

Network Monitor Videos on Channel 9

We posted some videos to Channel 9 in the last 6 months or so, and I wanted to let everybody know...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 10/12/2009

Using NMAPI to Access TCP Payload

The TCP Payload often carries data that you want to access directly using the Network Monitor API....

Author: Paul E Long Date: 10/07/2009

SMB Opportunistic Locking Behavior

Behold the mysterious world of OpLocks (Opportunistic Locking). Often OpLocks will be disabled by a...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 09/22/2009

Delayed Write Failure Trace Study

In this "Trace Study”, we'll look at a case where the customer is seeing delayed write...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 09/21/2009

Chained Captures and Stitching Them Back Together

When you use NMCap to capture data you have an option to save the capture files as a chain. As the...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 09/09/2009

I Can't View My Windows Home Server at Home

I have a friend who just received his Windows Home Server. Home Server allows you to access it...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 08/14/2009

SMB Data Fields and Properties

Properties: Property.SMBFileID - The File ID for any kind of SMB request...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 07/22/2009

TCP Data Fields and Properties

Fields:TCP.Port - Filters on the Source or Destination port. Used to find traffic based on port...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 07/20/2009

TCP Analyzer Expert: Make Your Network Run Faster

Performance problems suck...time! But years of "Where's Waldo" has trained our brains in...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 06/30/2009

Network Monitor Fields and Properties

Collected here are a list of the most common data fields and properties. They are categorized by...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 06/30/2009

Circling In Shark Waters

Last week I attended Sharkfest 09 at Stanford CA and I had a wonderful time. It was great to talk to...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 06/25/2009

Windows 7 and ISA Remote Windows Sockets Parsers Available

If you don't already know, we have been updating the our parsers for Network Monitor on...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 06/04/2009

Event Tracing for Windows and Network Monitor

Event Tracing for Windows, (ETW), has been around for quite a while now as it was introduced in...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 05/13/2009

Network Monitor Forum on TechNet

We'd like to announce that we are opening a Network Monitor forum on TechNet. We also have forums...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 05/11/2009

Top Users Expert for Network Monitor 3.3

One of the major new features in Network Monitor 3.3 is the ability to run experts directly from the...

Author: Paul E Long Date: 04/30/2009

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