Hi,
at work I need to get something working under windows 2k and following the instructions in this guide
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/nov04/hey1104.mspx
well, it does not work :(. Under xp it does, but upgrading is no option. So I thought, let's try it in perl instead.
this is what I got so far: 
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Win32::OLE;

my $WMIServices;
my $Namespace = "\\root\\cimv2";
my $Machine = ".";
my @files;
my $strdate = "20031102000000.000000+000";
my $query = "Select * From CIM_DataFile Where CreationDate < '$strdate
+' and drive = 'C:'";
print $query . "\n";
my $object = "winmgmts:\\\\$Machine$Namespace";
print $object . "\n";

$WMIServices = Win32::OLE->GetObject("$object");

@files = $WMIServices->ExecQuery("$query");
 
foreach (@files) {
    print "$_\n";
}

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------------------------------------------------------ and this is what I get: 
H:\scripts\perl\win32> perl wmi2.pl 
Select * From CIM_DataFile Where CreationDate < '20031102000000.000000
++000' and
drive = 'C:'
winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2
Win32::OLE=HASH(0x1986408)

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Apparently I get the wmi statement ok, and the object too, but what under vbs works fine, under perl does not. I must be the cause, but I do not see it. Any ideas? thanks in advance

In reply to win32 wmi question by natxo

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