I have set up a perl script which creates a html page but also Tees this html output to a Word doc. I then use Win32::OLE to open this Word document and print its contents.I have managed to make this work both locally (on server) and remotely(from client) in a test environment where both machines were Windows2000 Advanced Server. Having copied exactly the steps to achieve this onto a live NT production server, the remote call to launch Word is failing with the baffling error:

Can not launch Word Application Win32::OLE(0.1502) error 0x800706ae: "The object universal unique identifier (UUID) was not found" at C:\Inetpub\scripts\paris\produce_sales_conf.pl line 518.

where line 518 is my $WordApp = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application','Quit') || die ("Can not launch Word Application ",Win32::OLE->LastError());

I have managed to find out the following about the Object UUID:
The universal unique identifier that identifies a particular RPC object. A server specifies a distinct object UUID for each of its RPC objects; to access a particular object RPC object, a client uses the object UUID to find the server that offers the object.

but am no closer to resolving this issue.

Amazingly if i logon from the remote client to the server as the server Administrator, there is not a problem. This would suggest to me that it is a permission problem but i have tried giving Everyone access to Launch and Access Word Application from Dcomcnfg including I_USR, System, Administrators,etc to no avail.

Any suggestions as to what i might try? I noticed that in the Win32::OLE section there is code to generate a GUID/UUID. Should I be trying to do this? Thanks and regards, Sean

In reply to UUID not found-Win32::OLE by samspade

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