When you attempt to connect from one GPOAdmin instance to another instance in a non-trusted domain or forest you may observe the following error:

The source machine cannot resolve the target machine, target domain or forest.
Update the hosts file on the source machine and add the following information:

Connect to the target GPOADmin server instance:



You should now be connected to the target GPOADmin server and an additional connection should be visible in the GPOADmin console as seen below: