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Microsoft Network Monitoring
View All CoursesIn this course on Microsoft Network Monitoring you will learn to capture and analyze network data in real-time. This course also covers how to make sense of your network data and effectively troubleshoot your network’s traffic.
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- Introduction
- Introduction to Microsoft Network Monitor
- About Your Instructor
- About the Course
- Before You Begin
- How to Use This Course
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Corporate Scenarios
- Network Information
- Hardware and Software
- My Lab Goals
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- Introduction
- Scenarios to Use Network Monitor
- Secure Your Network with Network Monitor
- Network Diagram
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What Network Monitor Can Do for You
- The History of Netmon
- Where to Get Netmon 3.4
- Installing Netmon
- Which Users Can Run Netmon?
- Meet Netmon and Your Networks
- Before You Use Netmon
- Starting a Capture
- The Netmon User Interface
- Capturing Data
- Saving the Captured Data
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Where to Take the Capture
- Creating a Cheat Sheet
- Customizing What is Captured
- Customizing the User Interface
- Making Sense of the Captured Data
- Adding Even More Information
- Viewing Specific Frames
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Getting to the Bottom of the Capture
- Finding the Data
- Filtering Expressions
- Building Custom Filters
- Looking at the Build-In Filters
- Creating and Saving Your Filters
- Adding Color to Your Filters
- Adding Comments
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Converting IP Addresses to MAC Addresses via Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
- Getting an IP Address from the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Other Service that Masquerade as DHCP Traffic
- Monitoring DHCP DORA Traffic
- Monitoring DHCP Renew IP Address Traffic
- Monitoring DHCP and WDS Traffic
- Connecting to Other Machines Using Small Message Block (SMB)
- Monitoring Drive Mapping Traffic
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What DHCP Should Do
- Not Being Able to Contact the DHCP Server
- DHCP Service Disabled
- DHCP Server Has No IP Addresses to Hand Out
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Anatomy of a DNS Query
- Terminology of a DNS Query
- DNS Query Example
- Flushing DNS Cache
- Primary DNS Zones
- Secondary DNS Zones
- Start of Authority (SOA)
- Stub Zones
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Forwarding a DNS Query
- Conditional Forwarding
- DNS Forwarders Traffic
- Setting Up Conditional Forwarder
- Recursion
- Netmask Ordering
- Round Robin
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Command Line Network Monitor
- Using NMCap
- Customize Your Captures
- Custom Command Line Captures
- Using Help for NMCap
- Windows Events and Captured Data
- Let the Experts Do the Heavy Lifting
- What We Covered
Instructor
Rhonda Layfield
For almost 30 years, Rhonda has helped people securely deploy, protect, and streamline their IT resources. She began her career in the US Navy where she spent 7 years as communications specialist with a top secret clearance. Later, as Sr. Security Analyst for an electrical utility company operating nuclear power plants, she discovered serious security flaws in software about to be acquired. She also consults for large customers showing how to quickly and cheaply roll out 50,000 Windows 7 desktops, but there's one thing that she loves even more than solving IT problems: sharing what she has learned with other people.
Rhonda has a passion for learning products at the packet level and sharing that knowledge in her classes with clients large and small. She is a Setup and Deployment MVP, Desktop Deployment Product Specialist (DDPS), and MCSE on Windows NT, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003. Along with teaching she presents at international conferences such as Tech Ed US, Tech Ed EMEA, MMS, Techdays Belgium, Ireland, and Slovenia. She is the only person to have won Speaker Idol on two continents (US and Europe) and is often in the top ten speakers, as recently as Tech Ed Belgium (out of 91 sessions).
Rhonda has co-authored two books on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 with Mark Minasi and regularly contributes articles to Windows IT Pro magazine. She is currently working on her first deployment book, titled Mastering Windows 7 Deployment.
