Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) support in Recovery Manager for AD (4315628)

As per our Recovery Manager for AD User Guide, Managed Service Accounts (MSA) are generally supported. On the other hand, Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) can currently be used for scheduling backups primarily. When you specify a gMSA account for the Backup Agent using the "Use the following account" option you may encounter the following error message:

Failed to connect to backup agent: Cannot establish the connection to the backup agent