Returns information about the groups found on a computer.

This script was tested using Perl 5.8.0.804 for Microsoft Windows, available from ActiveState.

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use Win32::OLE('in');
use constant wbemFlagReturnImmediately => 0x10;
use constant wbemFlagForwardOnly => 0x20;

$computer = ".";
$objWMIService = Win32::OLE->GetObject
    ("winmgmts:\\\\$computer\\root\\CIMV2") or die "WMI connection failed.\n";
$colItems = $objWMIService->ExecQuery
    ("SELECT * FROM Win32_Group","WQL",wbemFlagReturnImmediately | wbemFlagForwardOnly);

foreach my $objItem (in $colItems)
{
      print "Caption: $objItem->{Caption}\n";
      print "Description: $objItem->{Description}\n";
      print "Domain: $objItem->{Domain}\n";
      print "Install Date: $objItem->{InstallDate}\n";
      print "Local Account: $objItem->{LocalAccount}\n";
      print "Name: $objItem->{Name}\n";
      print "SID: $objItem->{SID}\n";
      print "SID Type: $objItem->{SIDType}\n";
      print "Status: $objItem->{Status}\n";
      print "\n";
}