How do I use long names to refer to Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA)?
- by Jason Stangroome
Commonly domain user accounts are used as service accounts. With domain user accounts, the username can easily be as long as 64 characters as long as the User Principal Name (UPN) is used to refer to the account, eg longusername@mydomainfqdn.domainsuffix. If you still use the legacy pre-Windows 2000 names (SAM) you have to truncate it to ~20…