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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...
Oliver_Hoechli , sure you can use gMSA for SQL Server, see
Configure Windows service accounts and permissions - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn
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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
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.
gMSA support was first introduced in SQL Server 2014; I can't imagine MS added that feature just for fun.
- Ok, thank you very much for the information and your help. I will ask where the vendor got the information from.