Introducing Managed Service Accounts in Windows 2008 R2
Microsoft introduces two new type of service account in Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 to enhance the isolation and management of service accounts. These two accounts are Managed Service accounts and virtual accounts. These also eliminate the need for an administrator to manually administer the SPN and credential for these accounts. Managed Service accounts are the domain accounts while virtual accounts the “managed local accounts” that can use a computer credential to access network resources.