Solved: Apple Mac book with parallels (windows 10 VM) profiled as "windows10 worsktation"

harrzhan · ‎10-25-2018

We are having some strange issues with profiling:

MAC book, OUI apple device, OSX MAC OS X

but user agent contains "Windwos NT 10"

The final profiling results is Windows10 workstation.

the windows VM is on Paralells (shared mode).

Also we have seen iphone profiled as "Window Vista" because similar user agent "Windows 6.0"

Have you seen any of these lately?

hslai · ‎10-25-2018

Yes, this is expected. User-Agent is one attribute that may tell the endpoint running a specific OS. Other than Parallels, MacBook may run Windows OS through BootCamp as if any other Windows laptops.

As to Apple iPhone, depending on the actual user-agent string, we may modify that check to the following or similar:

IP:User-Agent CONTAINS Windows NT 6.0	AND
IP:User-Agent NOTCONTAINS like Mac OS X

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hslai · ‎10-25-2018

Yes, this is expected. User-Agent is one attribute that may tell the endpoint running a specific OS. Other than Parallels, MacBook may run Windows OS through BootCamp as if any other Windows laptops.

As to Apple iPhone, depending on the actual user-agent string, we may modify that check to the following or similar:

IP:User-Agent CONTAINS Windows NT 6.0	AND
IP:User-Agent NOTCONTAINS like Mac OS X