5. Windows Workstation - Fooster171/Wazuh-SEIM-Home-Lab GitHub Wiki

Windows 10 User Machine

Download the Windows imager utility and run it to create the ISO file. Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

Open up virtual box and go to "machine" and "new" to create a new virtual machine using your windows ISO:

I had to select "Skip Unattended Installation" because it would automatically install Windows 10 Home. In order to join active directory, you will need to install at least Windows 10 Pro. For this machine I selected 2gb of RAM and 1 CPU with a 30gb disk. Keep clicking next until you can finish the setup and the machine will start and begin the initial setup of the Windows 10 unit.

You will also need to change the network adapter. If you go to Machine -> Settings and select the "network" tab, configure the adapter as follows:

This should cause our windows 10 machine to be on the same subnet as our pfsense firewall(which it will use for DHCP).

Running the machine for the first time will deliver some basic prompts.

When asked for a product key, please select "I don't have a product key".

At which point you will be directed to a list of different editions to install. Select "Windows 10 Pro" to install an edition of windows that lets you join Active Directory.

I selected custom installation and chose the 30gb disk I assigned the VM to install windows on. Setup may take a while.

The machine may restart after these steps.

After selecting region & keyboard settings, you should be asked if this is for personal use or organization. Select Personal:

Next select "Offline account":

Select "Limited Features"

Then you will see prompts to create an account name, followed by password and security questions. After that, there will be some screens for transmitting data to microsoft and some personal preference stuff. I skipped and disabled almost everything. Hit "Not Now" when asked about cortana.

As a last QOL feature, we need install the guest additions for virtualbox. From the VM window, open the "Devices" menu and select "Insert guest additions cd image". Then navigate to the drive for the guest additions.

Within this drive, select "VboxWindowsAdditions-amd64" and run it. Click through and install using the default options. Once done, go ahead and reboot.