
While perusing the WSH 5.6 documentation I happened across a section on Remote Scripting. I imagined Remote Scripting to be possible but it isn’t something that I had seen before in the documentation. I started investigating and so created the scripts as suggested and ran the test.
Straight away I got the "ActiveX component can't create object". Obviously I was a little confused since this is a Microsoft example script. No matter how I created the script I got the same error every time and there was no obvious reason why I was getting the error.
It turns out to be a problem relating to the installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 that cripples remote scripting in WSH 5.6. Obviously it was a security decision by Microsoft. A well considered one I’m sure but they could have given we sys admins a few ideas! Read on for information on how to solve the ActiveX component can't create object error…
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