Read this when you have a few minutes for a sort of comprehensive overview of the changes: https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/304878/why-is-device-type-is-unexpectedly-reporting-serve/
This is helpful and I understand how we can override the device types for endpoints if need be, but Iām curious if the Device Type inspector can be modified so that it returns āVirtual Workstationā for Win7/10 VMs ā it currently returns āServer,ā which is very misleading. The fact that this property behaves this way prevents us from using it in either of my previous two organizations. In both cases, Iāve created my own custom property for Device Type that handles this scenario as Iāve described.
That said, I think it makes sense to modify the source property to behave this way. Does anyone disagree?
Based on the discussion above, there is not a consensus here. You want it to be based on the OS, others want it based on the hardware. We do have other properties and inspectors that report whether a system is virtual or not, so it should be simple to customize the property to your preference using the _BESClient_DeviceTypeOverride setting.