The fact that it is not something you would do very often makes it even more important to have an intuitive simple GUI if you ask me, rather than having to look at the documentation and get familiar with the Powershell syntax for the various commands you need to run (or maybe you’ve never even used Powershell so there would be even more of a learning curve). Not that there is anything wrong with Powershell, it’s great for scripting and automating things, but in reality I can’t see many people wanting to automate the creation of an MSA (Managed Service Account) as it would not be a very common task. Pretty useful, but unfortunately the only way to create and configure these accounts is via Powershell… until now. What is a Managed Service Account? They are a special type of domain account in Windows Server 2008 R2 that can be used to run Windows services, but unlike normal domain accounts you don’t have to keep changing the password to keep things secure – Active Directory will take care of managing the password for you and communicating this with the computer that is using the Managed Service Account (you don’t even have to restart the services for the password change to take effect).
A free tool for creating and editing Managed Service Accounts, with no Powershell knowledge required.
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