How it works...
Service accounts are notoriously hard for admins to get right. User objects are reused for this purpose and they are typically over-privileged, not secured enough, and admins rarely change the passwords for these accounts out of fear of breaking functionality.
Managed Service Accounts (MSAs) were introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 to solve this problem. In Windows Server 2012, MSAs were superseded by gMSAs. Since then, when you create this type of object as an admin, you create a gMSA, by default.
The main difference between an MSA and a gMSA is that a gMSA can be used as a service account on more than one server, where an MSA is limited to one server.
gMSAs are msDS-GroupManagedServiceAccount objects. They are not based ...
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