Re: Windows Service Accounts

[Henri Salo <henri () nerv fi>]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:11:05 -0500
Abo Sous <abussous () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Part of my new job, I'm cleaning up the accounts (both AD and local)
> in a windows environment (~2000+ in all). Getting to the local
> services accounts, i wonder if you would have some remediation
> approach to track such accounts, remove unused ones, and, at a later
> stage (long term), to manage those which are hard coded in 3rd party
> applications or that need to be remain in the environment.
>
> thanks,
> ./as

I would start by making a policy to expire passwords.

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Henri Salo

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