{"id":4460,"date":"2026-06-08T17:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4460"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:52:18","slug":"accuracy-of-windows-operating-system-detection-in-elements-vulnerability-management","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/jp-ja\/support-articles\/accuracy-of-windows-operating-system-detection-in-elements-vulnerability-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Accuracy of Windows operating system detection in Elements Vulnerability Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>Scan results shows the wrong installed Windows OS with 87% certainty, stating that a closed port is required for better accuracy. Apart from that is there any other setting that we can tweak in the scan options to increase the accuracy of OS detection?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>If scanner was unable to determine operating system version with 100% certainty. We recommend to scan the host again with an authenticated scan.<\/p>\n<p>For steps on Configuring the WinRM service to use HTTP on individual hosts\u00a0for Authenticated Scans;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><b>Set-Item WSMan:\\localhost\\Client\\TrustedHosts -Value &#39;{target IP\u00a0address}&#39;\u00a0<\/b><br \/>Note: Do remove the { }. Multiple IP can be added with comma separation<\/div>\n<p>For steps on\u00a0Configuring the WinRM service to use HTTP through GPO;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><b>Set-Item WSMan:\\localhost\\Client\\TrustedHosts -Value &#39; * &#39;<\/b><br \/>Note: This will add all host under *.domain<\/p>\n<p>To add individual hosts under domain;<br \/><b>Set-Item WSMan:\\localhost\\Client\\TrustedHosts -Value &#39;{*.domain},{target ip address}&#39;<\/b><br \/>Note: Do remove the { }. Multiple IP can be added with comma separation<\/div>\n<p>For more configuring alternatives such as using HTTPS, the full guide can be viewed here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.withsecure.com\/userguides\/product.html#business\/radar\/4.0\/en\/concept_AB45C3CF1EE74D0699BB8BCFFA1C3BA1-4.0-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.withsecure.com\/userguides\/product.html#business\/radar\/4.0\/en\/concept_AB45C3CF1EE74D0699BB8BCFFA1C3BA1-4.0-en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scan results shows the wrong installed Windows OS with 87% certainty, stating that a closed port is required for better accuracy. Apart from that is there any other setting that we can tweak in the scan options to increase the accuracy of OS detection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[108],"class_list":["post-4460","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000012213","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 14:52:18","import_hash":"9e835fb061c755245b52557afa816a501dc03c11","vanilla_article_id":29785,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/29785-accuracy-of-windows-operating-system-detection-in-elements-vulnerability-management","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":156,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/jp-ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/jp-ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/jp-ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/jp-ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/jp-ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}