Your current problem may be that you do not have the "adssecurity.dll" on your system, or it is not registered. This DLL registers the ADsSID Object on your system, so OLE knows what it is, and how to handle this object. This dll is found as part of the ADSI SDK, on M$' site.
Mail me offline if you can't find it. Then place the DLL somewhere like winnt\system32 (anywhere that your path statement will find it) and then run this from the command prompt. 'regsvr32 adssecurity.dll' Although, I too, have come to learn OLE as it applies to Exch 5.5 and a few other implementations, I need to give thanks to Andrew Bastien and this list (and archives), for their help. As well, Yes, I have deprecated "CreateObject" in favor of "new" in my implementation... CreateObject should still work. Though, I don't think that's your current problem. Steven -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan C. Detert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win32::OLE->CreateObject('ADsSID) fails: Invalid class string Hello, I'm new to Win32::OLE and am trying to use it to create/delete Ms. Exchange mailboxes. I'm using code I found in the archives ( http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/215825 ) and modified for my environment. Thanks to Steven Manross, I got past my first hurdle (i did not know my exchange ou value). (actually, i think the code i found in the archive is by him as well) So, now the code creates a mailbox, but it bombs when trying to associate an NT account to the mailbox. The code snippet where it fails is this: ----------------- my $sid = Win32::OLE->CreateObject("ADsSID") or die "CreateObject(ADsSID): ", Win32::OLE->LastError."\n"; $sid->SetAs($ADS_SID_WINNT_PATH, "WinNT://$NT_DOMAIN/$username,user"); my $sidHex = $sid->GetAs($ADS_SID_HEXSTRING); $mailBox->Put("Assoc-NT-Account", $sidHex ); $mailBox->SetInfo; ----------------- The error I get is from the CreateObject : "0x800401f3: Invalid class string" Any ideas? My only clue is this: Reading the perldoc for Win32::OLE reveals that the CreateObject method is deprecated in favor of 'new' instead. Fine. However, the doc says you need to pass 'new' a "program id" or a "class id". Maybe "ADsSID" isn't a valid 'class id' in this context? If not, then what should I use? Also, I'm running the Win32::OLE code on a box that is remote to the MsExchange server box. Do I need to specify the hostname of the MsExchange server box in my call to 'new' ? Thanks for whatever help you lend. -- Happy Landings, Jon Detert Unix System Administrator, Milwaukee School of Engineering 1025 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
