I think the reason you will find very little help on Perlmonks (or you will get unkind responses - I fought back the urge to write one myself) for basically a Microsoft-based question is that you have not 'sold' us onto the idea that the problem you are facing is indeed a Perl problem.

Over the years there have been thousands of posts that read like this, 'I was using Perl and I now it broke.' What elicits the bad response is not the post nor the problem -- it is the approach. I'm speaking from experience when I say that Microsoft's claim to fame is that they build tools that do everything for you. You don't really have to know how anything works -- their Knowledgebase has examples, sample code, and everything is essentially a black box. Here you are not just interfacing Perl with Sharepoint, you are trying to interface two completely different cultures.

When I first started learning Perl I was a VB programmer. I was in shock that I actually had to read documentation and solve problems myself. When I started learning how to use Linux I was, again, in shock that everything wasn't clearly spelled out and all in one place. I had to seek out answers to problems from different people and it was important to contribute, even if it was just a bug report.

You made a comment that the first responder to your post was unprofessional. That exemplifies my point. Why should you expect a professional response to anything on Perlmonks? Here we are, on our own time, providing answers to our peers and people new to the language. This environment is anything but professional. It is not anyone's job to help you with your problems. You have Perlmonks confused with the boys/girls at Redmond.

I may get downvoted for saying this but I am just going to come out and say it -- unless you spend time trying to grasp what free software/open source is about stop using Perl. Don't use Linux. Give up now; buy Windows 8/9/whatever and reinstall it on that machine. Switch your client to something in .NET and when you run into trouble contact Microsoft support (http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ln=en-us).

That is my professional response.