Does a trust need to be established in order to do a Direct Interforest replication of a Group Polic (NETIQKB5983)

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Does a trust need to be established in order to do a Direct Interforest replication of a Group Policy Object?

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NetIQ Group Policy Administrator 2.0

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NetIQ Group Policy Administrator 3.0

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NetIQ Group Policy Administrator 4.x

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NetIQ Group Policy Administrator 5.0

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Yes.  When directly replicating Group Policy Objects (GPOs) across forests, an existing explicit two-way trust between the source and target domains must be established.

It is possible (although not recommended) to replicate GPOs from the source domain to the target domain without a trust being established.  To do so, the replication must be performed by a user logged on with a user account and password identical to a user account and password in the source domain.

Formerly known as NETIQKB5983