In certain information handling system environments, universal serial bus (USB) devices may be connected to a client and redirected to a server or other information handling system. Some operating systems (OS) of a server may not be upgraded such that the OS does not support certain USB devices based on more recently published USB versions, such as USB 3.0. Rather than installing non-certified or expensive third party software, a virtual USB bus driver may retrieve the USB version of the connected USB device and determine the USB version supported by the OS of a server and use that information along with the retrieved USB version to determine what USB version to advertise to the OS of the server for a newly redirected USB device.