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Creating and managing service accounts

Creating and managing service accounts - Windows Server Tutorial

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Creating and managing service accounts

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- [Instructor] Let's now create a service account. Now before creating service account, what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a new organizational unit called, I'll just call it keep it simple and call it just service accounts so that I know that all my service accounts are actually in a specific organizational unit. They're not getting mixed up with my other actual user account. So service accounts are accounts that are used by an application. So I don't want to have it getting mixed up with other users because they'll probably have different types of policies. So I can go here and what I'm going to do is right click and select new user. And this user is actually going to be a very simple service account. So I'm going to just call user app one is VC and that is going to be the log on name and we just have to make sure there is no actually space or anything like that. So let's go here. Before giving password, I'm going to unselect this because this is a service account, right?…

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