Credits to SwiftOnSecurity and ion-storm for providing the base fork of this config. Incremental changes have been made to meet my specific needs. Feel free to use or send a pull request.
Run with administrator rights
install_sysmon.bat
Run with administrator rights
sysmon.exe -u
All sysmon events are written to
C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs\Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon%4Operational.evtx