Preparing your environment

To demonstrate the various post-exploitation attacks in this chapter, I have built a basic Active Directory (AD) lab. You can build the same one that I built by using the following diagram:

Figure 1: Lab diagram

Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation can be downloaded from the following URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise.

Windows Server 2016 Evaluation can be downloaded from the following URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2016.

The setup steps for creating a domain on the server operating system is as follows:

1. Once your server is installed, log in using the local administrator account.
2. Configure a static IP address on the Ethernet adapter. If you are building a virtual machine, ensure that you set your network adapter to be a private network on the virtualization software.
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