in reply to COM Objects and the need to know more

I haven't tried this, but the Win32::OLE documentation of the new method says:
To create an object via DCOM on a remote server you can use an array reference in place of PROGID. The referenced array must contain the machine name and the program id or class id. For example: 
            my $obj = Win32::OLE->new(['my.machine.com', 'Program.Id']
+);

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