In this Technet artice it indicates that "managed service account is designed to provide crucial applications such as SQL Server ... ". The FAQ says: Can I use managed service accounts with Microsoft SQL Server? The use of managed service accounts with Microsoft SQL Server is not supported. So, who is correct? kn

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a) no, according to what I have heard, it is not supported b) I am myself running it under the managed service account :-) c) but it has some severe pains in it. you cannot use the account during installation or in the SQL configuration utility. You need to change the account manually in the properties of the service in the normal Services console. this can be also sometimes problem because changing the user account for sqlsrvr service is supported only through the config utility which also changes some other things on 2005 SQL servers. ondrej.