Using Group Managed Service Accounts

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:51:04 +0000

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Windows Server 2012 comes with group managed service accounts, an improved version of the original MSA. Ever since Windows Server 2008 R2 was out, I remember reading about managed service accounts (MSA) a new feature that I wanted to check out. You can read more about MSA here, but in essence they are useful because they have automatic password management.

Introduction

I always wanted to try MSA and was recently in a position to propose using MSAs, but after re-reading the information, specifically “A managed service account can only be installed on a single computer” I decided to skip MSA.

However, I did research if anything had changed since 2008 R2 and apparently it has – Doug Symalla on TechNet has a very interesting article about the new Group Managed Service accounts and how they work in Server 2012.

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Using Group Managed Service Accounts

Introduction