Hi, Can you help with a Win32::OLE WMI question please. I know WMI and the module fairly well, but have run aground on something that must be fairly simple, if only I could see it. I'm trying to convert this VB to perl. 
Set wmiFileSecSetting = GetObject ("winmgmts:Win32_LogicalFileSecurity
+Setting.path='d:\\programming'")
RetVal = wmiFileSecSetting.GetSecurityDescriptor(wmiSecurityDescriptor
+)

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Here's what I think should work. 
use Win32::OLE;
$wmiFileSecSetting = Win32::OLE->GetObject("winmgmts:Win32_LogicalFile
+SecuritySetting.path='d:\\programming'");
$RetVal = $wmiFileSecSetting->GetSecurityDescriptor($wmiSecurityDescri
+ptor);

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but it doesn't. $RetVal is returned as a success status, but the object returned from GetSecurityDescriptor is recognised by Data::Dumper as an empty hash. The VB works and returns an object with content. ...Thanks.

In reply to Win32::OLE and WMI by grmm2

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