From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
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Group Managed Service Accounts
From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
Group Managed Service Accounts
- In Windows Server 2008, we were first introduced to Managed Service Accounts, which was a way of solving some of the issues that we had with using local or standard user accounts for our programs and services. But there were some additional issues that came in with the Managed Service Accounts which prevented many people from being able to go ahead and use them. And that's where Group Managed Service Accounts come into play with Windows Server 2012. So Group Managed Service Accounts enable you to extend the capabilities of the original standard Managed Service Accounts to more than one server in your domain because when you have server farm scenarios, where you have a network load-balancing clusters, or IIS servers, very often there's a need to run system or program services under the same service account. Now, the original standard Managed Service Accounts cannot provide Managed Service Account functionality to services that are functioning on more than one server. Whereas, by…
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