Does a service account require the interactive logon privilege?

Version Affected:  All

Description:  

Service accounts usually have additional permissions allowing the accounts to do extra work that a normal user usually is not allowed to do.

Cause:  

Corporate policy states that service accounts should not be allowed to log on interactively.

Resolution:  

Group Policy can be enabled either locally or domain wide to disable the interactive logon settings. See the image below to:

   "Deny log on locally"

   "Deny log on through Remote Desktop Service"

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