GPO tool

Group Policy made searchable

A free ADMX browser or comparison tool for IT administrators.Search policies, find registry keys, and see exactly what each setting writes to the Windows Registry. Or compare two GPO backups to see exactly what has changed between them.

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Allow NetBT queries for fully qualified domain names

Specifies that NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) queries are issued for fully qualified domain names.

If you enable this policy setting, NetBT queries will be issued for multi-label and fully qualified domain names such as "www.example.com" in addition to single-label names.

If you disable this policy setting, or if you do not configure this policy setting, NetBT queries will only be issued for single-label names such as "example" and not for multi-label and fully qualified domain names.

Registry Information

VendorMicrosoft
ProductDns Client
CategoryDNS Client
Applies toComputer Configuration
Supported onWindows8
Registry Key[HKLM]SoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindows NTDNSClient
Value NameQueryNetBTFQDN
TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled value1
Disabled value0