Perl ActiveSync support

saeen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi I am developing a tool for office to make life easier for me. At the moment i waste alot of my time trying to help customers prepare their environment for a software we install/support. So i thought of creating a readiness test tool. The tool apart from checking alot of outgoing ports should also be able to check incoming ports, exchange activesync connectivity and ldap connectivity.

Outgoing ports are simple. I also found examples for LDAP. What i want help with is

1. Is there an Exchange Activesync module for perl ? I have not been able to find any so far.

2. How can i test incoming ports from within the host itself ? Should i use a proxy of some sort ?

Any help much appreciated.

Update: Thanks for the response guys. I will have a look into it. Thanks again.

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Re: Perl ActiveSync support by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 26, 2012 at 09:34 UTC
Win32::OLE is one of the ways you can use to talk to ActiveSync. Consult the ActiveSync documentation by Microsoft to find out how to use Win32::OLE to talk to it.	[reply]
Re: Perl ActiveSync support by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 26, 2012 at 20:21 UTC
The important thing is not "does Win32::OLE talk about activesync", but "does activesync talk OLE". A quick search of the internet implies that it can. Update: Looks like I replied to a changed version of the OP's node. The node has been reverted leaving this reply stranded! True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re: Perl ActiveSync support by Anonymous Monk on Feb 26, 2012 at 00:05 UTC
You're probably going to have to use Win32::OLE :) See this collection of win32 tutorials/examples,	[reply]
Re: Perl ActiveSync support by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Feb 27, 2012 at 13:53 UTC
Please don't clear your initial node when the problem has been solved. Respond to your node or add a note to the end / beginning of the node indicating that it has been solved. I have moderated your node asking for a content restore. Removing the original text causes responses to have no context, and provides no help for future readers of the node. --MidLifeXis	[reply]