Follow me and learn Windows Server 2012 – Group Managed Service Accounts

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Bruce here again, day 14 on my journey!  Tonight I’m studying Group Managed Service Accounts.  If you remember in 2008 r2 Microsoft introduced Managed Service accounts.  These provided us with a Service account that would provide automatic password management for a single account on a single server.  Microsoft has now improved on this feature by allow us to manage a single service account that can be used on multiple servers.  Now we can have a single identify that spans all of our services running on a server farm.  Below are some resources to help you learn more about gMSA.

What's New for Managed Service Accounts

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831451.aspx

Group Managed Service Accounts Overview

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831782.aspx

Getting Started with Group Managed Service Accounts

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj128431.aspx