New Features and Updates

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This section provides a brief description of the ongoing new and updated features that are introduced in each release of Microsoft Message Analyzer.

New in Message Analyzer Version 1.4

The new and updated features that are provided in the Microsoft Message Analyzer version 1.4 release, are described in this section.

  • Filtering Toolbar — consists of a new Filtering Toolbar that consolidates the major filtering functions of Message Analyzer into a common user interface (UI) that is accessible to all data viewers, including the Grouping viewer. Integrates the following filtering capabilities into the new toolbar:

    • View Filters

    • Time Filters

    • Viewpoints, including Disable Operations

    • Viewpoint Filters

    • Flat Message List (simulates the Network Monitor view)

    For more details about these feature, see the Using the Filtering Toolbar section.

  • Window Layouts — organizes data viewers and Tool Windows into preset configurations for customizing your working analysis environment, with window layouts that range from simple to increasingly more complex configurations.

    For more details about this feature, see the Working with Message Analyzer Window Layouts topic.

  • Profiles — enables you to utilize a set of built-in Profiles that contain specific data viewer and Layout presets that trigger whenever you are loading data from specific types of supported input files. Also enables you to create your own custom Profiles.

    For more details about this feature, see the Working With Message Analyzer Profiles topic.

  • Data Source Filter dialog — originally part of the Quick Filter feature that was replaced by the Time Filter feature, which is now located on the Filtering toolbar that is accessible to every in-focus session viewer. You can display the Data Source Filter dialog by clicking the Data Source Filter item in the global Message Analyzer Session menu.

    For more details about this feature, see the Filtering Data Sources topic.

  • Chart configuration improvements — provides a new UI for creating Chart viewer Layouts that simplifies configuration and editing. Also streamlines the use of visualizer components by limiting them to one per Layout.

    For more details about this feature, see the Extending Message Analyzer Data Viewing Capabilities topic.

  • Trace Session configuration improvements — provides a new UI for adding system ETW Providers when configuring a Live Trace Session, along with a Name and Guid search capability that helps you find providers of interest. Also provided is the capability to specify GUIDs for custom providers that you can add to the Available ETW Providers list in the New Session dialog, while automatically registering them with the operating system. Also relocates access to ETW session configuration on the ETW Providers toolbar in the New Session dialog.

    For more details about these features, see Adding a System ETW Provider.

  • WPP setup simplified — provides a simplified UI configuration in Message Analyzer Options to specify input TMF and PDB symbol files for parsing and viewing WPP-generated events.

    For more details about these features, see Loading WPP-Generated Events.

  • OMS support — provides a new input data source that imports data from logs in an Operations Management Suite (OMS) Workspace for analysis.

    For more details about these features, see Loading OMS Log Data.

  • Pattern Match viewer improvements — enables saving all Pattern Match messages as Bookmarks.

    For more details about this feature, see the Viewing Matched Instance Message Data and Bookmarks Tool Window topics.

  • Saving data in binary format — enables saving trace data in binary format from the Message Data Tool Window by using the Save Selected Bytes As command.

    For more details about this feature, see the Message Data Tool Window topic.

  • Decoding URLs — removes the special encoding characters in URLs and displays results in the Decoded Value section of the Field Data Tool Window.

    For more details about this feature, see the Decoding URLs topic.

  • Message time correlation improvements — similar to Time Offset in Microsoft Network Monitor, a new DeltaFromFirst global property is provided for the Analysis Grid viewer to indicate the sequential running time of each message.

    For more details about this feature, see the Tip in the Default View Layout topic.

  • Display enhancements for data fields — provides a new 8-bit field display for Flag type fields.

    For more details about this feature, see the Viewing Message Details Inline topic.

  • OPN viewer performance enhancements — provides a more light-weight and better performing viewer for displaying OPN definitions.

    For more details about this feature, see the Viewing OPN Source Code topic.

  • Bookmarking improvements — adds the capability to add bookmark messages to an existing Bookmark.

    For more details about this feature, see Adding Bookmarks to an Existing Bookmark or Group.

  • IP Address resolution — Message Analyzer now resolves IP addresses to host names in the Analysis Grid viewer, in traces where this information exists.

    See the Analysis Grid Viewer topic for more information.

  • Promiscuous Mode selection enhancement — provides simple selection of adapters that support P-Mode in the Advanced Settings - Windows-NDIS-Packet-Capture dialog, during Live Trace Session configuration, to enable capturing message data in Promiscuous Mode.

    For more details about this feature, see Capturing Data in P-Mode.

  • Enhancement to Pattern Expression configuration — now supports timestamp calculations when creating new Pattern Expressions with the Pattern Match Editor.

    For more information about creating Pattern Expressions, see Using the Pattern Editor.

  • Drag and Drop changes — provides the capability to drag and drop multiple data files into Message Analyzer and aggregate all data into a single default data viewer.

    For more details about this feature, see Performing Data Retrieval.

  • Process Name detection improvement — enables display of process name data natively in Message Analyzer for any ETW provider.

    For more details about this feature, see Viewing Process Name Data.

  • Assets — provides additional assets that includes more Layouts for the Analysis Grid viewer, Grouping viewer, and Chart viewer. Also includes a simplified process for Chart viewer Layout configuration.

For more details about these features, see the following topics:

Applying and Managing Analysis Grid Viewer Layouts
Understanding the Built-In Grouping View Layouts
Chart Viewer Layouts
Extending Message Analyzer Data Viewing Capabilities