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Setting up a Virtual Lab – 0x02 – Adding a client to the domain

Resources:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise

 

I grabbed an evaluation iso from Microsoft’s eval center and installed it on a new VM, similar to how I setup the server.

While doing this, I remembered how painful the windows 10 install is, and how many times I had to say no, no, no, no, no, no just to install the OS without having a ton of junk.

I have never setup a VM using only a host only connection, so this is a new experience for me. Once I finish installing the OS, I will need to test if I can ping between the server and client. Then I will join it to the domain and setup AD accounts (Hey I already know how to do that stuff!)

I was able to install the OS successfully, but it doesn’t look like VirtualBox is giving out an IP automatically. I will manually set it and see if it works.

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After setting that up I was able to ping my server!

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Now let’s join this client to the domain…

  1. Open up system info (Control Panel > System and Security > System
  2. Click change settings Next to the computer name
  3. Click Change…
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  4. Enter Allza.lab for the domain (I already changed the computer name)
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  5. Enter credentials of a user.
    1. Since I didn’t create any users yet, I will just use the administrator account
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  6. The client was successfully joined to the domain, now we just need to restart.
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After the restart, it looks like the machine is joined to the domain successfully.

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We can verify this by looking at the computers OU on the server as well

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Now the next step will be setting up an OU structure and creating a user account for Mr. Rick.

 

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