I am using Oracle VM VirtualBox as a virtualized space to install Windows Server 2019.
https://www.virtualbox.org/
I have downloaded Windows Server 2019 ISO from Microsoft’s ‘Evaluation Center’, it’s a free product given for testing. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2019
VDI is the default disk format in Oracle VM Box, it supports Windows Server 2019 among other OSs.
Dynamic hard disk is preferred as it allows for a maximum sized disk without assigning non required space.
Open the 'Storage' tab and click on the empty storage device (has a disk-shaped icon). Then, click on the disk-shaped icon on the right side and click 'Choose a disk file...' Insert the Windows Server ISO file.
The network settings could be configured as the following: The first network adapter will be set as the 'WAN' link in a ‘Bridged Adapter’ method. This places the Windows Server on the same broadcast domain as the host, while having a unique IP.
The second network adapter will be used for the internal network, connecting the clients to the domain controller (Windows Server OS), I will name it as ‘LAN’ and it will be configured as an internal network.
It's advised to add more than one proccessor for a both smoother and faster experience.
This is the first screen you should get when trying to install Windows Server.
The ‘Windows Server 2019 Standard Evaluation (Desktop Experience)’ edition is the GUI version for the standard edition, it’s suitable for implementing a small Active Directory architecture, this is the version I will use. The ‘Datacenter Evaluation’ edition is used for highly virtualized and cloud-based environments.
Windows Server allows us to configure partitions based on our needs, since this is a test environment I will not make any additional partitions of my own, but will use the default partitions given by Windows Server, this is done by clicking next.
