I've managed to solve my problem with the help provided here and working through a similar example from Dave Roth's Win32 Perl Programming. The script must be run on a server that has IIS installed on it I've posted the rough working script below if anyone would like to offer some constructive comments

use Win32::OLE ('in');
my @servers;
my $WebService;
my(@servers)=@ARGV if ($ARGV[0]);
die "usage is findweb SERVERNAME [,SERVERNAME...]" unless ($servers[0]
+);

foreach my $Server (@servers){
    print "Starting with Server $Server\n";
# Get an IIS COM object for the target machine
    unless($WebService = Win32::OLE->GetObject( "IIS://$Server/w3svc" 
+))
    {
        print "Unable to find IIS service on $Server, Skipping\n";
        next;
    }         
    foreach my $webserver (in ($WebService)){
    
        my $WebServer = $WebService->GetObject( "IIsWebServer",$webser
+ver->{Name} )
               || next; #no webserver available
    
        if(($WebServer->Class() ne "IIsWebServer") )
        {
            next; #not a webserver object, hmm, skip
        }
           print "Starting Webserver $WebServer->{name}\n"    
        foreach my $vdiroot (in ($WebServer)){
            my $VRoot = $WebServer->GetObject( "IIsWebVirtualDir", $vd
+iroot->{name} )
                || next; #not a virtual directory object, hmm, skip
          
            if(($VRoot->Class() ne "IIsWebVirtualDir") )
            {
                next;
            }        
            foreach my $VSubdir (in ($VRoot)){
                if($VSubdir->Class() eq "IIsWebVirtualDir")
                {
                    print "\tVirtual Web Dir Name=/$VSubdir->{name} Pa
+th=$VSubdir->{path}\n";
                }
                elsif($VSubdir->Class() eq "IIsWebDirectory")
                {
                    print "\tWeb Directory Name=/$VSubdir->{name}\n";
                }
                else
                {
                    next; #not a webdir or a vwebdir, hmm, skip
                    
                }        
            }
        }
    }
    print "done with server $Server\n";
}
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