BoneLight in Outlook/Exchange
Microsoft Exchange Server is a great groupware for the enterprises make a large global communication network. PacketBone designs BoneLight will not miss this opportunity to enhance Exchange Server to be a solid communication platform for IT professionals.
First of all, BoneLight™ equips Microsoft® Outlook with a Trace File previewer. Trace files captured from Winpcap/Libpcap, Sniffer, Microsoft Monitor, WildPackets OmniPeek, Network Instruments and Endace can now be previewed in Microsoft Outlook just like previewing a PowerPoint or Word document.
The Protocol Tree shows us about how much each application consumes in the traffic and the top to bottom Treeview let us understand the protocol type and implementation very clearly.
The decode page allow us read the packet content meaning in a human understandable language. Without identifying binary, each field of a binary is now explained in the decode fields.
Now files can be seen easily for the attachment of a file and also if a trace file in the private/public folder. First let us to see in the private folder.
with the mouse drag-n-drop, we can simply drag any trace to the folder of outlook. When we click the dropped file, the previewer instantly shows (after it is enabled) the content of the trace file. we can drop multiple files, then, when we click one by one, all packets information shown instantly just in our finger. We can create a related Microsoft Excel or a txt to brief the information of this trace file.
OK, let's share some files now because we already know how to see the packet content so easily.
I upload a trace file and an excel sheet which is generated by BoneLight for this file. Right click on the public folder and select properties in the context menu. In the 'Permissions' page, we can set how many people can view the files in the folder and who can have write permission to those files. All the user information can directly grab from Active Directory, so the permission control can be fully integrated into the current security system applied for the domain e.g. RSA tokens
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Now the allowed people can join and see the trace file, excel files in Outlook too if they have BoneLight installed. Even if they do not have a BoneLight installed yet, they can still double click that file and read/write it with the preferred packet analyzer or related software.
Outlook 2007 can seamless integrate with SharePoint portal/service, so the trace files can be also put on the SharePoint services. Setting permission and publication is similar as Exchange public folder, so all trace file now can be secured with the groupware and if you make use of Excel export result of the trace file on the shared folders. The group people can work together and tracking the file uploaded. Even after a few months or years, all those trace file and review comments can be kept well and safe.
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