My Active Directory DHCP Virtualbox Homelab

 

I decided I needed to get some practice with Active Directory, so I decided to deploy a virtual environment and set up an instance on Server 2019. This is not intended as a step by step guide, this is just a few moments that I found interesting.

I used my Win10Pro and Server2019 ISOs like usual, and for the server VM I set it to have 2 NIC card. One left as NAT to access the internet, and one set to internal to communicate with the Win10 VM, which I set to only communicate on an internal NIC. 

I checked the IPv4 addresses of the two NIC adapters, one of them had an external gateway of 10.0.2.15, while the other had an internal IP of 169.254.10.2, an APIPA address. I set this one to have a static IP of 172.16.0.1, and the DNS to the same thing.

I set up Active Directory and DCHP on the Server

 

 

 

This is the result of setting a static IP

 And then I was able to confirm that everything was up and running correctly. I'm going to save this environment so I can use it for practice as I learn new skills in IT and Cybersecurity.