lazynooblet , 4 months ago

This takes a few minutes to test, so I did.

TLDR: You can do it in Win11 Pro at least, but the interface tries really hard to steer you into a Microsoft account.

Used the Windows image tool at https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

This created me a 23H2 ISO

Created a VM in VMWare Workstation and started setup

When asked for the key, I chose "I don't have a product key"

When asked for version, I chose "Windows 11 Pro"

https://lazysoci.al/pictrs/image/bf2040e5-a86e-4fb5-944f-5394d52076b8.png

After the restart, during OOBE, it asks me how I would like to setup, I chose "work or school"

https://lazysoci.al/pictrs/image/05f4d394-583b-49fb-ac66-0f6c6ce8b966.png

When asked to sign-in to Microsoft, I chose "Sign-in options"

https://lazysoci.al/pictrs/image/ae723622-1a68-4262-b128-04858467a7b3.png

I then chose to "Domain join instead"

https://lazysoci.al/pictrs/image/08c72851-341b-4277-8c49-87f4aba28a9c.png

I'm then asked to create a new standard user

https://lazysoci.al/pictrs/image/1aff7ffd-dee1-42ff-a755-0d13725e1b6f.png