From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
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Managed Service Accounts
From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
Managed Service Accounts
- Many network based programs use an account to run services or provide authentication. They may use a local account like the local service, network service, or local system account, but those provide a variety of challenges including the fact that they're used by multiple programs and services and they can't be managed at the domain level. Alternatively, it's very common that a program might use a standard domain account but that provides a bunch of additional challenges including security related challenges. That's where managed service accounts comes into play. A managed service account is an active directory domain services object class that enables simplified password and service principal name management for service accounts. Now the managed service account first appeared with Windows Server 2008 R2. I should mention that it was also in Windows 7, but we're talking about this from the server side here. Now…
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