Is it recommended practice to add SCCM service accounts to the Domain Admins group?

I am working with an external consultant that is recommending that all of the SCCM service accounts be added to the Domain Admins group. I am not the SCCM engineer, I am the AD guy, this is the reason I am questioning this methodology. I have
read several articles that seem to provide the appropriate configuration options for all of the SCCM accounts so I see no need to allow these accounts to have Domain Admin level access to the environment. I don't see a reason for ANY of the service accounts
to have Domain Admin, let alone all of them. I have referenced several TechNet articles but there does not seem to be definitive guidance around this. Could anyone assist with settling this? Thanks in advance.

No, there's absolutely no reason for the service accounts to be domain admins.
All of the required service accounts used in a SCCM environment can be given the proper permissions given their purpose.
Example: Join Domain Account can be given the permissions to join computer objects in the very specific OU in AD, and nothing else.
Network Access Account only need read access to your distribution points.
Client Push Account needs local administrative permissions on your clients.
What i'm trying to say is. None of any of the service accounts needs to be domain admin. Hope that helps.
Martin Bengtsson | www.imab.dk

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The basic is that it increases your attack surface. If the service (and this goes for any application regardless of vendor or platform) has elevated access to the underlying system (e.g. Local Administrator, SYSTEM, root, and so forth) and that service is
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