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Convert a service account into a gMSA account

Sebastian Bado 21 Reputation points
2022-09-20T14:17:34.54+00:00

Hi!
So I've got an existing normal service account with a bunch of permissions in our company servers. Now, I'm migrating the infrastructure to containers for Windows and have to use a gMSA account in order to integrate said containers with ActiveDirectory.
Is there any way to convert the service account I'm currently using into a gMSA account ? I understand that I could create a new gMSA account and assign same permissions to it, but I was hoping to avoid that.

Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-09-20T14:20:52.68+00:00

    As far as I know you couldn't convert it. Read on here.
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/group-managed-service-accounts/getting-started-with-group-managed-service-accounts

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-09-20T15:14:32.997+00:00

    Permissions for the most part apply to objects, not the user so there not really a good method to just copy.

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