Fellow Monks, I've been in the windoze prison for some time now and I'm looking to escape! I have been forced to create a VBscript that creates AD accounts and the quickest way I could find a solution was to use VBscript (hence the windoze prison). Is there a way to do the same thing but in Perl instead? I only included the code that actually creates the accounts (this is the piece I'd rather have in Perl), any examples would be helpful, thanks!! 
'------------------------------------------------------
' Add piece to create users here
Const ADS_PROPERTY_UPDATE = 2
Const ADS_PROPERTY_APPEND = 3

'Bind to OU Where new User will be placed (domain users)
'-----------------------------
Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://OU=Domain Users,DC=HEADQUARTERS,DC=YOURC
+OMPANY,DC=com")

'Create New User and set specific information
'--------------------------------------------------
Set objUser = objOU.Create("User","cn=" & strName)
objUser.Put "sAMAccountName", strNetId
objUser.SetInfo
objUser.AccountDisabled = False
objUser.SetInfo
objUser.SetPassword strPass
objUser.Put "mail", strNetId & "@YOURCOMPANY.com"
objUser.Put "givenName",strFName
objUser.Put "sn", strLName
objUser.Put "displayName",strName
objUser.Put "userPrincipalName",strNetId & "@YOURCOMPANY.com"
objUser.SetInfo

' Add that user to their respective global security group
Set objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://cn=" & strUserDir & ",OU=Domain Users
+,DC=HEADQUARTERS,DC=YOURCOMPANY,DC=com")
objGroup.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_APPEND, "member", _
    Array("cn=" & strName & ",ou=domain users,dc=HEADQUARTERS,dc=YOURC
+OMPANY,dc=com")
objGroup.SetInfo

' Add that user to general users group
Set objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://cn=General,cn=users,DC=HEADQUARTERS,D
+C=YOURCOMPANY,DC=com")
objGroup.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_APPEND, "member", _
    Array("cn=" & strName & ",ou=Domain Users,dc=HEADQUARTERS,dc=YOURC
+OMPANY,dc=com")
objGroup.SetInfo
'--------------------------------------------------

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