Mastering Active Directory

Managed Service Accounts

Service accounts are recommended to use when installing application or services in infrastructure. It is a dedicated account with specific privileges which are used to run services, batch jobs, and management tasks. In most of the infrastructures, service accounts are typical user accounts with the Password never expire option. Since these service accounts are not used regularly, administrators have to keep track of these accounts and their credentials. I have seen many occasions where engineers face issues due to outdated or misplaced service account credential details. The trouble is, if you reset the password of service accounts, you will need to update the services, databases, and application settings to get the ...