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JFarr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

I've created this VBscript, and it works as expected.
But now I need it to be in perl and I am having trouble
with some of the Win32::OLE calls, so any help would be
appreciated.
In the code below, I need to connect to a server with my admin rights, then create a scheduled task. Which this vb script does.
In my perl attempts it breaks at the
objNewJob.Create("C:\Rescue21\install\fixsnmp.bat", _ SchdTime, False , , , , JobID)

Set objLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") Set objWMIService = objLocator.ConnectServer("es-g01-app01", "root\cim +v2", "NDRSMP\p57571", "Dragon#06") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(wmiQuery) wscript.echo "Now establish a scheduled task" Set objNewJob = objWMIService.Get("Win32_ScheduledJob") set objTZone = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select Bias From Win32_TimeZon +e") for each objItem in objTZone strBias = objItem.Bias Next SchdTime = TimeConvert(time, strBias) Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate, (Sec +urity)}!\\" _ & "es-g01-app01" & "\root\cimv2") Set objNewJob = objWMIService.Get("Win32_ScheduledJob") errJobCreated = objNewJob.Create("C:\Rescue21\install\fixsnmp.bat", _ SchdTime, False , , , , JobID)
I'd rather be racing my Daytona