# The installed version of WinRM does not support transport(s) \[u''\]

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-installed-version-of-winrm-does-not-support-transport-s-u/29184>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** azure, windows, ansible-lint\
**Created:** [December 4, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-installed-version-of-winrm-does-not-support-transport-s-u/29184 "2018-12-04T02:46:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ameya\_Agashe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@Ameya\_Agashe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ameya_Agashe)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-installed-version-of-winrm-does-not-support-transport-s-u/29184/1 "2018-12-04T02:46:37Z")

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Hello there,

I’m trying to configure a bunch of Windows machines through Ansible and installed pywinrm correctly but Ansible is throwing an error message.

Command: ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts playbooks/common.yml -vvv

Error Message:

ASK [Gathering Facts] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
task path: /media/sf\_C\_DRIVE/OnlyOnMyPC/ansible.rhel75.master/playbooks/common.yml:1  
Using module file /home/jim/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/windows/setup.ps1  
fatal: [10.96.1.11]: FAILED! =\> {  
“msg”: “The installed version of WinRM does not support transport(s) [u’']”  
}  
Using module file /home/jim/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/windows/setup.ps1  
fatal: [10.96.1.12]: FAILED! =\> {  
“msg”: “The installed version of WinRM does not support transport(s) [u’']”  
}

pip list pywinrm

Package Version

* * *

adal 1.2.0  
ansible 2.7.4  
ansible-lint 3.5.1  
applicationinsights 0.11.7  
argcomplete 1.9.4  
asn1crypto 0.24.0  
azure-cli-core 2.0.35  
azure-cli-nspkg 3.0.2  
azure-common 1.1.11  
azure-graphrbac 0.40.0  
azure-keyvault 1.0.0a1  
azure-mgmt-batch 4.1.0  
azure-mgmt-compute 2.1.0  
azure-mgmt-containerinstance 0.4.0  
azure-mgmt-containerregistry 2.0.0  
azure-mgmt-containerservice 3.0.1  
azure-mgmt-dns 1.2.0  
azure-mgmt-keyvault 0.40.0  
azure-mgmt-marketplaceordering 0.1.0  
azure-mgmt-monitor 0.5.2  
azure-mgmt-network 1.7.1  
azure-mgmt-nspkg 2.0.0  
azure-mgmt-rdbms 1.2.0  
azure-mgmt-resource 1.2.2  
azure-mgmt-sql 0.7.1  
azure-mgmt-storage 1.5.0  
azure-mgmt-trafficmanager 0.50.0  
azure-mgmt-web 0.32.0  
azure-nspkg 2.0.0  
azure-storage 0.35.1  
backports.ssl-match-hostname 3.5.0.1  
bcrypt 3.1.4  
certifi 2018.11.29  
cffi 1.11.5  
chardet 3.0.4  
colorama 0.4.1  
configobj 4.7.2  
configparser 3.5.0  
cryptography 2.4.2  
decorator 3.4.0  
entrypoints 0.2.3  
enum34 1.1.6  
humanfriendly 4.17  
idna 2.7  
iniparse 0.4  
ipaddress 1.0.16  
isodate 0.6.0  
javapackages 1.0.0  
Jinja2 2.10  
jmespath 0.9.3  
keyring 17.0.0  
knack 0.3.3  
lxml 3.2.1  
MarkupSafe 1.1.0  
monotonic 1.5  
msrest 0.4.29  
msrestazure 0.4.31  
oauthlib 2.1.0  
packaging 18.0  
paramiko 2.4.2  
perf 0.1  
pip 18.1  
pyasn1 0.4.4  
pycparser 2.19  
pycurl 7.19.0  
Pygments 2.3.0  
pygobject 3.22.0  
pygpgme 0.3  
PyJWT 1.7.0  
pyliblzma 0.5.3  
PyNaCl 1.3.0  
pyOpenSSL 18.0.0  
pyparsing 2.3.0  
python-dateutil 2.7.5  
python-linux-procfs 0.4.9  
pyudev 0.15  
pywinrm 0.3.0  
pyxattr 0.5.1  
PyYAML 3.13  
requests 2.20.1  
requests-oauthlib 1.0.0  
schedutils 0.4  
SecretStorage 2.3.1  
setuptools 0.9.8  
six 1.11.0  
slip 0.4.0  
slip.dbus 0.4.0  
tabulate 0.8.2  
typing 3.6.6  
urlgrabber 3.10  
urllib3 1.24.1  
wheel 0.30.0  
xmltodict 0.11.0  
yum-metadata-parser 1.1.4

No idea what is the problem and how to resolve it.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Kind Regards,  
Ameya Agashe

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**Author:** ![jborean](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jborean/32/1525_2.png) [@jborean](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jborean)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-installed-version-of-winrm-does-not-support-transport-s-u/29184/2 "2018-12-04T06:42:07Z")

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It sounds like you have the variable ‘ansible\_winrm\_transport’ defined to an empty string.

Thanks

Jordan

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**Author:** ![Ameya\_Agashe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@Ameya\_Agashe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ameya_Agashe)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-installed-version-of-winrm-does-not-support-transport-s-u/29184/3 "2018-12-04T11:59:53Z")

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Thank you, Jordan! Yep, it was empty instead of basic. My bad.

Kind Regards,  
Ameya Agashe