Configuring Active Directory
First I assigned a static IP to my Windows server
Then in the Server Manager I added ‘Roles and Features’ in the ‘Manage’ section. During the installation I selected Role-based installation with Active Directory Domain Services role
After successful installation I promoted the server to domain controller and created new domain XYZ
After all was configured it was time to populate the AD with some objects (users, groups etc). It can be done using GUI or with powershell. I opted for the latter option using the script from https://github.com/safebuffer/vulnerable-AD/tree/master to create a vulnerable AD so I could attack it later
At the end I created one more user for my workstation machine
The last step was configuring Windows workstation. First I changed the DNS server to my domain controller so that the machine could resolve the domain xyz.local
Then I added the workstation to the domain
After restarting I successfully signed in to my XYZ domain as ‘smalkinson’
