find what Server.CreateObject is trying to make

Question

I am porting a windows 2003 app to windows 2008r2. It is a classic ASP app. On line 32 of awebpage.asp the following code is used:

Server.CreateObject("some.custom.name.here")

When running the page in a browser I get the following error

Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 800401f3'

Server.CreateObject Failed

/awebpage.asp, line 32

800401f3

Anyone know how I should go about finding where this "some.custom.name.here" object is on the old server so I can move it over?

Answer 1

Look for this object name in RegEdit, under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.

Once you find it you get its ProgID / CLSID (a long GUID number), find that long number in RegEdit and you'll get to a key with this number. Under that key there will be another key (probably InprocServer32) which contains the requested .dll / .exe.