Microsoft Message Analyzer: Successor to Microsoft Network Monitor

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Most of the Network Administrators might exist aware of the Microsoft Network Monitor tool. At present Microsoft has released a successor of this tool called Microsoft Message Analyzer. For now, Microsoft has made this tool public and they have a Connect site besides.

UPDATE:

Microsoft Message Analyzer (MMA) will be retired and its download packages removed from microsoft.com sites on November 25 2022. There is currently no Microsoft replacement for Microsoft Message Analyzer in development at this time. For similar functionality, please consider using a tertiary party network protocol analyzer tool.

Microsoft Message Analyzer

According to TechNet:

Microsoft Message Analyzer is a new tool for capturing, displaying, and analyzing protocol messaging traffic. It is the successor to NetMon iii.x and is a key component in the Protocol Engineering science Framework (PEF) that was created by Microsoft for the improvement of protocol design, development, documentation, testing, and support. With Message Analyzer, you tin can capture live information or retrieve archived message collections from saved files such equally traces and logs. Message Analyzer also enables you to display data in a default tree grid view and in selectable graphical views that employ grids, charts, and timeline visualizer components that provide loftier-level data summaries and other statistics.

According to the release blog the main feature of Microsoft Bulletin Analyzer are :

Integrated "live" upshot and message capture at various system levels and endpoints
Parsing and validation of protocol messages and sequences
Automatic parsing of event messages described by ETW manifests
Summarized grid brandish – top level is "operations", (requests matched with responses)
User-controlled "on the fly" grouping by message attributes
Ability to browse for logs of unlike types (.cap, .etl, .txt) and import them together
Automated re-assembly and ability to render payloads
Power to import text logs, parsing them into cardinal element/value pairs
Back up for "Trace Scenarios" (one or more bulletin providers, filters, and views)

I would say it's a must-have tool for Network administrators since there is so much you lot can do.

There is a TechNet weblog dedicated to Microsoft Message Analyzer.

Shyam aka "Captain Jack" is a Microsoft MVP alumnus and a Windows Enthusiast with an involvement in Avant-garde Windows troubleshooting. Suggestions made and opinions expressed by him here are his personal one'south and non of his current employers. He blogs at captaindbg.com.