Windows 2003 and WMI question

From: Peter Nguyen (petern_at_adobe.com)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:23:50 GMT

Hello All,

I have a script that utilize wmi to get the local Administrators group name
in different OS languages (Administrators group names differently in
different language).
The script works fine with Windows 2000/XP. However, the WMI call failed
without a trace when running on Windows 2003 box (english, german, sweden,
neitherland so far...).

Does Windows 2003 make WMI calls different than 2K/XP? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Here is a portion of my script which do the above mentioned.

sComputer = "."

sGroupSID = "S-1-5-32-544" ' Well Known SID of the local Administrators
group

' --- THIS IS WHERE IT FAILED ON WINDOWS 2003 ---
 Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & sComputer & "\root\cimv2")
      If Err.Number <> 0 Then
       msgbox Err.Number
       msgbox Err.Description
      End If
 Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_Group WHERE
SID = '" & sGroupSID & "'")
      If Err.Number <> 0 Then
       msgbox Err.Number
       msgbox Err.Description
       End If

For Each objItem in colItems
 sAdminGrp = objItem.Name ' Get local Administrators group name
 Wscript.Echo "Name of the local Administrators group: " & sAdminGrp
Next

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