<div class="content" name="FAX_RemoveOutboundGroup" uuid="c6a78b92-08cc-4a5e-8093-5d7ff109d23c"><p>The fax client application calls the <b>FAX_RemoveOutboundGroup
(Opnum 53)</b> method to remove an existing outbound <a href="46aba9c4-ebb1-4b10-86ac-4bb3025657b9#gt_20b15ad8-82b1-47ef-a494-561c9cdee7fa" data-linktype="relative-path">routing group</a> from the fax
server. The name of the group to remove is specified using the <i>lpwstrGroupName</i>
parameter. The value for <i>lpwstrGroupName</i> can be obtained using <b>FAX_EnumOutboundGroups</b> (section
<a href="4e08c709-ab72-48f5-bc1d-36b1dcf274ba" data-linktype="relative-path">3.1.4.1.26</a>).<a id="Appendix_A_Target_149"></a><a aria-label="Product behavior note 149" href="056171e7-80bc-45ff-8107-66ba3abb2023#Appendix_A_149" data-linktype="relative-path">&lt;149&gt;</a></p><p>In response, the server MUST validate that the lpwstrGroupName
does not specify the special routing group called &#34;&lt;All
Devices&gt;&#34;, because this routing group cannot be removed. The client&#39;s
fax user account MUST have access to manage configuration on the server. The
server MUST also confirm that the group is NOT being used in a rule.</p><p>On success, the server MUST remove the specified outbound
routing group.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> error_status_t FAX_RemoveOutboundGroup(
   [in] handle_t hFaxHandle,
   [in, string, ref] LPCWSTR lpwstrGroupName
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>hFaxHandle: </b>The RPC binding handle for this call.
The client SHOULD reuse the RPC binding handle used as an input <i>hBinding</i>
argument for the <b>FAX_ConnectFaxServer</b> (section <a href="5cbfd38d-7a14-4560-ad24-9ed78f19a3bb" data-linktype="relative-path">3.1.4.1.10</a>) or <b>FAX_ConnectionRefCount</b> (section
<a href="a92941ac-bd07-4a71-af85-c2c157c97cf9" data-linktype="relative-path">3.1.4.1.11</a>) method call
used to connect to the fax server.</p><p><b>lpwstrGroupName: </b>A pointer to a
null-terminated string that uniquely identifies an existing group name. The
group name is expected to be case-insensitive.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>This method MUST return
0x00000000 (ERROR_SUCCESS) for success; otherwise, it MUST return one of the
following error codes, one of the fax-specific errors that are defined in
section <a href="cbe6c4fb-4dda-4f6c-9701-0d490ba0d105" data-linktype="relative-path">2.2.52</a>, or one
of the other standard errors defined in <a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a>
section <a href="../ms-erref/18d8fbe8-a967-4f1c-ae50-99ca8e491d2d" data-linktype="relative-path">2.2</a>.</p><dl>
<dd>
<table><thead>
  <tr>
   <th>
   <p>Return value/code</p>
   </th>
   <th>
   <p>Description</p>
   </th>
  </tr>
 </thead><tbody><tr>
  <td>ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED 0x00000005</td>
  <td>Access is denied. The client&#39;s fax user account does not have the FAX_ACCESS_MANAGE_CONFIG access rights.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER 0x00000057</td>
  <td>The fax server tried to return FAX_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED_ON_THIS_SKU but the client fax API version (FAX_API_VERSION_0, described in the section 3.1.4.1.10) does not support this error code.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>ERROR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW 0x0000006F</td>
  <td>The group name specified by the lpwstrGroupName argument (excluding the length of the terminating null character) is longer than 128 characters.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>ERROR_REGISTRY_CORRUPT 0x000003F7</td>
  <td>The fax server cannot access the local machine&#39;s fax routing group information in the registry. The registry could be corrupt.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>ERROR_INVALID_OPERATION 0x000010DD</td>
  <td>The lpwstrGroupName parameter specifies the special routing group &#34;&lt;All Devices&gt;&#34;.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>FAX_ERR_GROUP_NOT_FOUND 0x000001B5A</td>
  <td>The group specified by the lpwstrGroupName argument cannot be found.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>FAX_ERR_GROUP_IN_USE 0x00001B5C</td>
  <td>The fax server cannot remove the outbound routing group identified by lpwstrGroupName. The outbound routing group is in use by one or more outbound routing rules.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>FAX_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED_ON_THIS_SKU 0x00001B63</td>
  <td>The fax client module API version (described in the section 3.1.4.1.10) is FAX_API_VERSION_1 or above, and the fax server is running on a version of the operating system that does not support the requested operation.&lt;150&gt;</td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd></dl><p><b>Exceptions Thrown:</b> No exceptions are thrown
except those that are thrown by the underlying <a href="46aba9c4-ebb1-4b10-86ac-4bb3025657b9#gt_8a7f6700-8311-45bc-af10-82e10accd331" data-linktype="relative-path">RPC</a> protocol <a href="../ms-rpce/290c38b1-92fe-4229-91e6-4fc376610c15" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-RPCE]</a>.</p></div>