In Configuration Manager, the DeleteMembershipRule Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) class method deletes a 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 DeleteMembershipRule(
	 SMS_CollectionRule collectionRule
);

Parameters

collectionRule


Data type: SMS_CollectionRuleQualifiers: [in]SMS_CollectionRule Server WMI Class object 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 both a direct rule and a query rule.

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	Dim instCollection As SWbemObject			'Instance of SMS_Collection
	Dim instQueryRule As SWbemObject			 'Instance of SMS_CollectionRuleQuery
	Dim instDirectRule As SWbemObject			'Instance of SMS_CollectionRuleDirect
	Set instCollection = Services.Get("SMS_Collection.CollectionID=""<collectionid>""")

	' Identify and delete the query rule.
	Set instQueryRule = Services.Get("SMS_CollectionRuleQuery").SpawnInstance_
	instQueryRule.QueryID = <id number>
	instCollection.DeleteMembershipRule instQueryRule

	' Identify and delete the direct rule.
	Set instDirectRule = Services.Get("SMS_CollectionRuleDirect").SpawnInstance_
	instDirectRule.ResourceID = <resource id>
	instCollection.DeleteMembershipRule instDirectRule

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