Manually remove Direct Access from a client
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If the client is unable to do a DNS lookup, remove the following in the registry to disable/remove Direct Access DNS config.
1 2 3 4 5 6 | $reg = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\DNSClient\DnsPolicyConfig' Get-ChildItem -Path $reg | ForEach {Remove-Item $_.pspath} Restart-Service DNSCache -force |