diff --git a/cloudbaseinit/tests/utils/windows/test_winrmconfig.py b/cloudbaseinit/tests/utils/windows/test_winrmconfig.py
index 0f10da34..6592b160 100644
--- a/cloudbaseinit/tests/utils/windows/test_winrmconfig.py
+++ b/cloudbaseinit/tests/utils/windows/test_winrmconfig.py
@@ -344,29 +344,6 @@ class WinRMConfigTests(unittest.TestCase):
             '</p:Listener>' % {"enabled": True,
                                "cert_thumbprint": None})
 
-    @mock.patch('xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring')
-    @mock.patch('cloudbaseinit.utils.windows.winrmconfig.WinRMConfig.'
-                '_get_node_tag')
-    @mock.patch('cloudbaseinit.utils.windows.winrmconfig.WinRMConfig.'
-                '_get_resource')
-    def test_get_auth_config(self, mock_get_resource, mock_get_node_tag,
-                             mock_fromstring):
-        mock_node = mock.MagicMock()
-        mock_node.tag = 'tag'
-        mock_node.text = 'value'
-        fake_tree = [mock_node]
-        mock_get_resource.return_value = 'fake data xml'
-        mock_fromstring.return_value = fake_tree
-        mock_get_node_tag.return_value = 'tag'
-
-        response = self._winrmconfig.get_auth_config()
-
-        mock_get_resource.assert_called_with(
-            self._winrmconfig._SERVICE_AUTH_URI)
-        mock_fromstring.assert_called_once_with('fake data xml')
-        mock_get_node_tag.assert_called_once_with(mock_node.tag)
-        self.assertEqual({'tag': 'value'}, response)
-
     @mock.patch('xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring')
     @mock.patch('xml.etree.ElementTree.tostring')
     @mock.patch('cloudbaseinit.utils.windows.winrmconfig.WinRMConfig.'
diff --git a/cloudbaseinit/utils/windows/winrmconfig.py b/cloudbaseinit/utils/windows/winrmconfig.py
index b9aa9082..8fb6a058 100644
--- a/cloudbaseinit/utils/windows/winrmconfig.py
+++ b/cloudbaseinit/utils/windows/winrmconfig.py
@@ -166,24 +166,6 @@ class WinRMConfig(object):
             '</p:Listener>' % {"enabled": self._get_xml_bool(enabled),
                                "cert_thumbprint": cert_thumbprint})
 
-    def get_auth_config(self):
-        data = {}
-
-        data_xml = self._get_resource(self._SERVICE_AUTH_URI)
-        tree = ElementTree.fromstring(data_xml)
-        for node in tree:
-            tag = self._get_node_tag(node.tag)
-            value_str = node.text.lower()
-            if value_str == "true":
-                value = True
-            elif value_str == "false":
-                value = False
-            else:
-                value = value_str
-            data[tag] = value
-
-        return data
-
     def set_auth_config(self, basic=None, kerberos=None, negotiate=None,
                         certificate=None, credSSP=None,
                         cbt_hardening_level=None):