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SMS: Netmon 2.0 Able To Read the Netmon 1.x Captures

Article ID: 200332

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition

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SUMMARY

The version of Network Monitor that ships with Systems Management Server (SMS) 2.0 is completely backward compatible with versions that shipped with previous versions of SMS. Not only is it able to read the capture from a previous version but it also offers many new features for analyzing the captured data.

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The version of Network Monitor that ships with SMS 1.x and Network Monitor Lite that ships with Windows NT 4.0 are unable to read Netmon version 2.0 captures. When this is attempted, the following error message occurs:

The capture file format is not valid.

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