COM and DCOM Scripting

List Component Categories
List Classic COM Class Settings
List Classic COM Classes
List DCOM Applications
List DCOM Application Settings
List ProgIDs

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List Component Categories

Retrieves information about the COM class component categories (COM classes that share common functionalities) found on a computer.

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComponentCategory")

For Each objItem in colItems
    Wscript.Echo "Category ID: " & objItem.CategoryId
    Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
    Wscript.Echo
Next
	

List Classic COM Class Settings

Returns configuration information for the “classic” COM classes installed on a computer.

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_ClassicCOMClassSetting")

For Each objItem in colItems
    Wscript.Echo "Application ID: " & objItem.AppID
    Wscript.Echo "Component ID: " & objItem.ComponentId
    Wscript.Echo "Control: " & objItem.Control
    Wscript.Echo "Default Icon: " & objItem.DefaultIcon
    Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
    Wscript.Echo "In-process Server 32: " & objItem.InprocServer32
    Wscript.Echo "Insertable: " & objItem.Insertable
    Wscript.Echo "Java Class: " & objItem.JavaClass
    Wscript.Echo "ProgId: " & objItem.ProgId
    Wscript.Echo "Version Independent ProgId: " & _
        objItem.VersionIndependentProgId
    Wscript.Echo
Next
	

List Classic COM Classes

Retrieves information about all the “classic” COM classes installed on a computer.

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ClassicCOMClass")

For Each objItem in colItems
    Wscript.Echo "Component ID: " & objItem.ComponentId
    Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
    Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
    Wscript.Echo
Next
	

List DCOM Applications

Returns information about all the DCOM (distributed COM) applications installed on a computer.

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_DCOMApplication")

For Each objItem in colItems
    Wscript.Echo "Application ID: " & objItem.AppID
    Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
    Wscript.Echo
Next
	

List DCOM Application Settings

Returns information about the configuration of each DCOM (distributed COM) application installed on a computer.

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_DCOMApplicationSetting")

For Each objItem in colItems
    Wscript.Echo "Application ID: " & objItem.AppID
    Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
    Wscript.Echo "Enable At Storage Activation: " & _
        objItem.EnableAtStorageActivation
    Wscript.Echo "Local Service: " & objItem.LocalService
    Wscript.Echo "Service Parameters: " & objItem.ServiceParameters
    Wscript.Echo "Use Surrogate: " & objItem.UseSurrogate
    Wscript.Echo
Next
	

List ProgIDs

Returns a list of ProgIDs (Programmatic Identifiers) found on a computer.

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_ProgIDSpecification")

For Each objItem in colItems
    Wscript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption
    Wscript.Echo "Check ID: " & objItem.CheckID
    Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
    Wscript.Echo "Parent: " & objItem.Parent
    Wscript.Echo "ProgID: " & objItem.ProgID
Next