Microsoft Network Monitoring Training

Want to learn to make sense of your network data? Microsoft Network Monitor assists you in capturing and analyzing network data in real time. In this course Rhonda Layfield teaches you to use Microsoft Network Monitor to effectively troubleshoot your network's traffic.

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Our new Microsoft Network Monitoring Training course by Rhonda Layfield guides you on how to make sense of your network data, and troubleshoot relevant issues using one convenient free tool. The lessons will take students through an introduction to the Microsoft Network Monitor and the functionality of basic networking protocols.

Once you feel comfortable setting up custom command-line captures, you'll be able to trace thousands of packets, and filter to the most important packets quickly. By mastering the process of filtering your data to support your troubleshooting tasks, you'll be able to analyze captured data and keep track of your progress. Once you learn these strategies, you can feel confident that you're utilizing Microsoft Network Monitor well.

Some of the key scenario-based lessons will cover:

Generating Custom Graphs
DHCP Troubleshooting
Custom Filters and Comments
Using NMCap

Rhonda Layfield takes students step-by-step into the features and configuration of the NetMon tool to to make you feel comfortable working with the large amount of traffic that NetMon captures and allows you to address. Using this popular tool with a sense of ease will improve the effectiveness of how you troubleshoot communication and security issues. Once you feel comfortable with the NetMon core features, you can try command line version and the "Experts" feature that uses past network traces to save time while searching through data.

The video training will cover basic Microsoft DNS (Secondary DNS Zones, State of Authority, etc.) thoroughly, and Rhonda tackles the "nitty gritty" advanced features of DNS, including conditional forwarding, recursion, netmask ordering, and round robin.

Don't lose sleep over your traffic, and learn how to make sense of your network data with Microsof Network Monitoring Training.

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Course Outline

Microsoft Network Monitoring Training - Course Outline

Lesson 1 - Getting Started with Microsoft Network Monitoring Training Course

In this video you will meet your instructor, you will learn about the scenario that will be used throughout the course, and you will get some advice from Rhonda about how to most effectively use this course.

Introduction to Microsoft Network Monitor
About Your Instructor
About the Course
Before You Begin
How to Use This Course

Lesson 2 - Lab Setup

In this lesson you will find out about the lab environment used for this course. We will talk about the hardware and software settings, as well as lab goals.

Corporate Scenarios
Network Information
Hardware and Software
My Lab Goals

Lesson 3 - The Course Scenario

In this video you will learn the details of the course scenario.

Scenarios to Use Network Monitor
Secure Your Network with Network Monitor
Network Diagram

Lesson 4 - Introduction: Meet Network Monitor

In this lesson you will learn the basics of network monitor: why you would use network monitor, where you can download it from along with installation, and the security needed to run network monitor. You’ll meet the network monitor interface and see the default settings for capturing data. You’ll also learn how to capture and save data from your network.

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

Lesson 5 - Getting to Know Network Monitor

This lesson explains which machines to take the network capture from and why you need to document what you are troubleshooting as well as what you find in the network captures as you find the information. Sometimes it can be helpful to customize exactly what is captured, how the data is displayed in Network Monitor and how to find the data packets you are really looking for. Some of Rhonda’s favorite tips and tricks are in this lesson like filtering out information you don’t need and easily identifying the packets and data you are looking for.

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

Lesson 6 - Making Sense of Your Data

In real world scenarios network monitor traces can get really big really fast. So sometimes finding the data packets that contain the clues necessary for troubleshooting seems incredibly daunting. Lesson 6 is all about finding the packets that contain those clues. You’ll discover the fine art of filtering which allows you to find the exact data you need to accomplish your troubleshooting. Beginning with the default filters and learning how to create your very own custom filters and saving them to be used in all your network captures. In fact, you’ll find out how to color code your data and just how easy it can be.

Getting to the Bottom of the Capture
Finding the Data
Filtering Expressions
Building Custom Filters
Looking at the Built-In Filters
Creating and Saving Your Filters
Adding Color to Your Filters
Adding Comments

Lesson 7 - Core Protocols

Network monitor is all about troubleshooting network protocols. In this lesson you’ll learn some of the basic networking protocols such as the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) which is how computers refer to each other on the network. Next, you’ll find out how Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) clients get their IP addresses and how other services can sometimes masquerade as DHCP servers when they really don’t have any IP addresses to hand out. We’ll finish this lesson with the protocol that allows you to map network drives in order to access data on network servers - Small Message Block (SMB2.0) also referred to as Common Internet File System (CIFS).

Converting IP Addresses to MAC Addresses via Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Getting an IP Address from the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Other Services 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

Lesson 8 - Practical Troubleshooting of DHCP

In this lesson you’ll learn some of the issues you can run into with DHCP and learn how to recognize and resolve them via network traces.

What DHCP Should Do
Not Being Able to Contact the DHCP Server
DHCP Service Disabled
DHCP Server Has No IP Addresses to Hand Out

Lesson 9 - The Big Daddy of Network Protocols: Domain Name Services (DNS)

What can be more basic on a network than DNS. This lesson begins with a basic DNS query, the kind you use every time you type www.Microsoft.Com or any other internet address. Then we’ll dive into Microsoft DNS and the different types of DNS zones that can be created and the type of traffic you can expect from each. If your new to DNS you’ll also learn quite a bit of new terminology and what it means - this is a power packed lesson!

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

Lesson 10 - Advanced Features of DNS

This lesson gets into the nitty gritty advanced settings of DNS and what they look like in network traces. You should know where to take the network captures from, sometimes it takes more than one trace to get the big picture. But it can also be difficult to follow the data packets from one trace to another. This lesson will show you how to follow a packet of data from one trace to the next.

Forwarding a DNS Query
Conditional Forwarding
DNS Forwarders Traffic
Setting Up Conditional Forwarder
Recursion
Netmask Ordering
Round Robin

Lesson 11 - Miscellaneous Network Monitor Features

This last lesson covers some of the coolest Network Monitor features. Find out how to use the command line version of Network Monitor for scripting solutions. And for those times when you’re not at work and bad things happen; wouldn’t it be nice to have a network trace of what happened and which machine / process created the problem. Meet nm3eventcap for those times when you’re not there and still need to get a network trace. Last but definitely not least, Microsoft has created some special tools called “Experts” that you can run on any network trace you’ve captured to reveal massive amounts of data that could take you weeks to figure out - just a couple mouse clicks and you can find out which protocol or user is hogging all the bandwidth or decrypt encrypted network packets to get inside the packets and read the data.

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

Certified Instruction

Rhonda Layfield (Setup and Deployment MVP, Desktop Deployment Product Specialist (DDPS), MCSE (2003, 2000 and NT))

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 an NT, 2000 & 2003 MCSE, Setup and Deployment MVP and Desktop Deployment Product Specialist (DDPS). 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 which will be available later this year. Until then her Windows 7 Deployment video training is the only complete guide to deploying Windows 7 .

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