Microsoft Hyper-V • Re: Service accounts?

Hi Kyle,

I'm not sure I understand which hosts are not joined to the domain. Are you referring to Hyper-V hosts? For gMSA usage, the requirement is that the guest interaction proxy and the target machine have network access to the domain controllers and are in the same domain to obtain the gMSA password.

Regarding frequent credential updates, the only idea that comes to mind is to schedule a script to update the credentials. One part of such a script can update the credentials using this cmdlet on Veeam B&R side, while another part must retrieve the actual updated information from a trusted source.

The idea of using a single 'Backups' account seems to be a compromise between security and usability, but I cannot say how it will work with the disabled login. Could you please elaborate a bit more on how you are going to configure such an account?

Thanks!

Statistics: Posted by PetrM — Mar 19, 2025 11:46 pm

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