Same Group Policy Can't Be Applied Across Multi-Forest

Group Policy
Group Policy provides administrative control over users and computers. Group Policy can be applied to a domain, organizational unit, or site within the same forest. It is not possible to apply the same Group Policy object to users and computers in multiple forests.
If necessary, administrators of the forests can apply identical Group Policy objects to the domains, organizational units, or sites in different forests. For example, if you are managing merged organizations and have applied identical Group Policy objects to affect the users and computers in each domain in the original forest, you might want to apply identical Group Policy objects to all users and computers in each domain in the other (merged) forest.
Another scenario in which Group Policy management across forests is important is in the test-to-production scenario. For example, for staging purposes, many customers maintain a separate test forest that closely resembles the production forest. After the policy deployment has been tested in the test environment, they want to reproduce this deployment in the production forest.
The Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) enables you to manage Group Policy across multiple forests by importing and copying Group Policy objects across forests. The GPMC will be available on the Microsoft Web site shortly after the release of Windows Server 2003. Although Group Policy Management can run only on the computers running Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003 operating systems, it can remotely manage Group Policy objects on domain controllers that are running a member of the Windows 2000 Server family with Service Pack 2 or greater.
Refer to: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779566(v=ws.10).aspx

To backup and import a same group policy to the other forest:
Please refer to: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754948(v=ws.10).aspx

Exchange across forests
Please refer to: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124765(v=exchg.80).aspx

User login into multi-forests
Please refer to: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog/?p=284

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