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Oliver_Hoechli
Copper Contributor
May 16, 2024

Group Managed Service Accounts for SQL Services -> Best Practices Microsoft

Hello everyone I would like to address the SQL community with the following question: We use Group Managed Service Accounts for all SQL services on our new SQL server. I have now been told b...
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    Oliver_Hoechli
    Copper Contributor
    May 16, 2024

    Hello Olaf
    Thank you very much for your quick reply. What I am still interested in is whether Microsoft has a recommended preference regarding the account for the SQL services? My software vendor explicitly states that the Microsoft recommendation is either a username and password account or the predefined SQL service account that is displayed during installation and that the Group Managed Service Accounts is not best practice?

    Greetings

    Oliver

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      olafhelper
      Bronze Contributor
      May 16, 2024
      Then your vendor should send you a link for that MS recommendation.
      gMSA support was first introduced in SQL Server 2014; I can't imagine MS added that feature just for fun.
      • Oliver_Hoechli's avatar
        Oliver_Hoechli
        Copper Contributor
        May 16, 2024
        Ok, thank you very much for the information and your help. I will ask where the vendor got the information from.

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