

Open Computer Management, Local Users and Groups, Users, right-click and select New User. Add a user called vagrant with the password vagrant.Open Windows Server Manager, Tools, Local Security Policy, Account Policy, disable "Password must meet complexity requirements".You will need to provide a password to the Administrator username, be sure to make note of this passwordĥ.) Preparing the VB Machine for Vagrant.The system will begin to install the 2019 Windows OS. Select Custom Install, select your lone drive for the Windows installation, hit next.When we hit "Select the operating system you want to install" be sure to select the "Windows Server 2019 Standard Desktop Experience" as this will have the GUI involved. The Machine will launch and open a new window that will run through the beginning steps of an Operating System install.On the home page for VirtualBox, select the machine listed, right-click, Start.The remaining configurations we can leave as default. Remember this is a clean deployment without any of the OS installation completed so true space available following our setup with 70GB is going to be about 58GB. We want to make sure this hard disk is large enough to be able to host an Enterprise deployment.Create a Virtual Hard Disk, Select VHD, Fixed Size, provide the location this VHD will be utilizing space from and provide the amount of disk space the VHD will be using. Add Optical Drive (the ISO we downloaded from step 1).Click on Processor, update the processor(s) to a proper level (remember we need to be aware of our own systems resources).Make sure the RAM is still set to a proper level.


You need to take into account how much RAM your system has before the allocation of RAM to the Virtual Box deployment. Caution, this RAM is tied to the hosting system.

