DeleteMembershipRules Method in Class SMS_Collection

Article
05/03/2011

Applies To: System Center Configuration Manager 2007, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2

In Configuration Manager, the DeleteMembershipRules Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) class method is used to delete more than one membership rule from the collection.

The following syntax is simplified from Managed Object Format (MOF) code and is intended to show the definition of the method.

SInt32 DeleteMembershipRules(
      SMS_CollectionRule collectionRules[]
)

Parameters

collectionRules
Data type: SMS_CollectionRule Array

Qualifiers: [in]

SMS_CollectionRule Server WMI Class objects to delete.

Return Values

An SInt32 data type that is 0 to indicate success or non-zero to indicate failure.

For information about handling returned errors, see About Configuration Manager Errors.

Example Code

The following example shows how to delete one or more collection rules.

    Dim instCollection As SWbemObject        'Instance of SMS_Collection
    Dim instQueryRule As SWbemObject         'Instance of SMS_CollectionRuleQuery
    Dim instDirectRule As SWbemObject        'Instance of SMS_CollectionRuleDirect
    Dim Rules() As Variant                   'Array of rules for DeleteMembershipRules
    Dim i As Integer    

    Set instCollection = Services.Get("SMS_Collection.CollectionID=""<collectionid>""")

    ReDim Rules(1)  '(0 to 1) array must contain exact number of objects
    i = 0

    ' Identify the query rule.
    Set instQueryRule = Services.Get("SMS_CollectionRuleQuery").SpawnInstance_
    instQueryRule.QueryID = <queryid>
    Set Rules(i) = instQueryRule
    i = i + 1
    
    ' Identify the direct rule.
    Set instDirectRule = Services.Get("SMS_CollectionRuleDirect").SpawnInstance_
    instDirectRule.ResourceID = <resourceid>
    Set Rules(i) = instDirectRule

    ' Delete the rules from the collection.
    instCollection.DeleteMembershipRules Rules

Requirements

Runtime Requirements

For more information, see Configuration Manager Server Runtime Requirements.

Development Requirements

For more information, see Configuration Manager Server Development Requirements.