<div class="content" name="Parent" uuid="20be302c-8e51-4f0b-b8ef-a0f664c165e2"><p>The ICategory::Parent (opnum 14) method retrieves the parent
of the update category.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> HRESULT Parent(
   [out, retval] ICategory** retval
 );
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</dd></dl><p><b>retval: </b>MUST be set to an instance of the <b>ICategory</b>
interface representing this category&#39;s parent category, or MUST be set to NULL
if this category is the <span><a href="750e8355-177c-4a51-bab8-927c813819c8#gt_d098da61-5811-4b5d-a2b9-fb4eb8455464" data-linktype="relative-path">root category</a></span>.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>The method MUST return
information in an <span><a href="750e8355-177c-4a51-bab8-927c813819c8#gt_799103ab-b3cb-4eab-8c55-322821b2b235" data-linktype="relative-path">HRESULT</a></span> data
structure. The severity bit in the structure identifies the following
conditions:</p><ul><li><p><span><span>  </span></span>If
the severity bit is set to 0, the method completed successfully.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span>  </span></span>If
the severity bit is set to 1, the method failed and encountered a fatal error.</p>
</li></ul><p><b>Exceptions Thrown:</b> No exceptions are thrown beyond
those thrown by the underlying RPC protocol <span><a href="../ms-rpce/290c38b1-92fe-4229-91e6-4fc376610c15" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-RPCE]</a></span>.</p><p>This method SHOULD return the value of the <b>Parent</b> ADM
element.</p></div>