From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Management and Implementation

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Working with managed service accounts

Working with managed service accounts

- One of the issues we've had since the beginning of networking and beginning of specifically, being in a domain environment is out at the individual machines, out at the servers, where we might be running things like SQL or IIS or some type of other service, DNS right? Where we have an account on the machine that was used to authenticate for that service either on the machine, or the domain environment. In the past, we would have a local service account on the machine and if that local service account needed to have a password changed, we'd go to that individual machine and we'd change that local password which could be monotonous if I had multiple machines with that environment or if I had a server farm or I had a SQL farm or a web farm. I mean you had to go touch multiple machines to reset that password for it to be synchronized up. The other issue that I may have had in the past was some organizations would create a domain account and then that domain account would be used to set…

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