diff --git a/contents/winrm-exec.py b/contents/winrm-exec.py
index 38602f1..f96650e 100644
--- a/contents/winrm-exec.py
+++ b/contents/winrm-exec.py
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@
 winrm.Session.run_cmd = winrm_session.run_cmd
 winrm.Session.run_ps = winrm_session.run_ps
 winrm.Session._clean_error_msg = winrm_session._clean_error_msg
+winrm.Session._strip_namespace = winrm_session._strip_namespace
 
 tsk = winrm_session.RunCommand(session, shell, exec_command)
 t = threading.Thread(target=tsk.get_response)
diff --git a/contents/winrm_session.py b/contents/winrm_session.py
index 0af3a7e..e0e8d7d 100644
--- a/contents/winrm_session.py
+++ b/contents/winrm_session.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import base64
 import sys
 import types
+import re
 
 PY2 = sys.version_info[0] == 2
 PY3 = sys.version_info[0] == 3
@@ -101,6 +102,14 @@ def _clean_error_msg(self, msg):
 
     return msg
 
+def _strip_namespace(self, xml):
+    """strips any namespaces from an xml string"""
+    value = to_bytes(xml)
+    p = re.compile(b"xmlns=*[\"\"][^\"\"]*[\"\"]")
+    allmatches = p.finditer(value)
+    for match in allmatches:
+        value = value.replace(match.group(), b"")
+    return value
 
 class Response(object):
     """Response from a remote command execution"""
@@ -158,4 +167,5 @@ def to_bytes(obj, encoding='utf-8', errors="ignore"):
             # Try this first as it's the fastest
             return obj.encode(encoding, errors)
         except UnicodeEncodeError:
-            raise
\ No newline at end of file
+            raise
+