Allow NetBT queries for fully qualified domain names
- Policy ID
- DNS_AllowFQDNNetBiosQueries
- Scope
- Computer Configuration
- Supported on
- At least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT
- Source
- Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
- Category
- Network › DNS Client
Description
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
ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- QueryNetBTFQDNREG_DWORD