Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

MSAs

Service accounts are recommended to use when installing applications or services in an infrastructure. A service account is a dedicated account with specific privileges that is used to run services, batch jobs, and management tasks. In most 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 I have witnessed many occasions where engineers face issues due to outdated or misplaced service account credential details.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 with a new password. ...