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GPO Migration You might need to migrate GPOs from one domain to another for a vari-
ety of reasons. For example, you have a multidomain environment, and two domains have sim-
ilar policy requirements. After perfecting the GPOs in one domain, you can migrate them to be
used in the other domain. Migration is also useful when you have set up a test environment sim-
ilar to one of your production domains. You can configure and test a GPO in the test environ-
ment thoroughly, and then migrate it to the production domain.
GPOs can be migrated across domains in the same or different forests by adding the domain
to GPMC. To add a domain in the same forest, right-click the Domains node in the left pane of
GPMC and click Show Domains to open the dialog box shown in Figure 7-25. Then select the
domains you want to add to GPMC.
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Figure 7-25
Add a domain from the same forest to GPMC
To add a domain from a different forest, right-click the Group Policy Management node in
the left pane of GPMC and click Add Forest. Then enter the name of the domain in the forest
that you want to add. Figure 7-26 shows GPMC with multiple domains and multiple forests.
Figure 7-26
GPMC with multiple forests and domains
 
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