Subj : Perl NT Admin (was Re: User log on and services)
To   : Brian Hall
From : Randall Parker
Date : Sun Mar 25 2001 05:11 am

From: Randall Parker <rgparker@west.net>

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:52:50 +0000 esteemed Brian Hall did'st hold forth 
thusly:
> Yes, they will. I have had to search the registry for Run and Load
> before to clear out something that was always giving an error message
> after login. There are a lot of places to check.

Brian,

I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to use Perl to admin NT/Win2k 
machines. I am thinking of writing a script that would be able to read a list 
of keys. eg you could have a file that lists a list of registry paths. The Perl 
script would go down each path and show all keys and subpaths that are below 
it.

So you could go:
  > Perl MyPerlRegistryReader.pl MyRegistryPathListFile.txt

and it would dump out a list of registry keys, types, and values at those 
places.

Anyway, I'm wondering anyone happens to know if there is an OLE interface into 
the registry. There is this Win32::OLE package for Perl from ActiveState that 
looks like it can create and call OLE objects in apps. I would expect some OLE 
object is available for the registry.

http://velocity.activestate.com/docs/ActivePerl/site/lib/Win32/OLE.html

If you don't already have Perl installed on NT/Win2k then you can get it from 
here:

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html

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