>>>Actually there are still a number of bugs in GETOBJECT() and it can't read certain things. I've found and reported a bunch of these and they are fixed for the future so we'll get true GETOBJECT() support that is unparsed.
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>>Yeah, I've found a few of these too- we still can't bind directly to the top-level provider, but there are workarounds...
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>I think you can always do this by specifying // at the end of the provider string.
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>o = GETOBJECT("winmgts://")
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Nope. Try:

oNT = GETOBJECT("WinNT://")
oIIS = GETOBJECT("IIS://")

You get "unknown COM status code"

But the top-level works:

oADS = GETOBJECT("ADs://")