<div class="content"><p>The Count method returns the number of updates that are
installed on the local server.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> HRESULT Count(
   [out] LONG* Count
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>Count: </b>A value indicating the number of
updates installed on the local server.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>A signed 32-bit value that
indicates return status. If the method returns a negative value, it has failed.
Zero or positive values indicate success, with the lower 16 bits in positive
nonzero values containing warnings or flags defined in the method implementation.
For more information about Win32 error codes and <a href="../ms-dtyp/a9046ed2-bfb2-4d56-a719-2824afce59ac" data-linktype="relative-path">HRESULT</a>
values, see <a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a>
sections <a href="../ms-erref/18d8fbe8-a967-4f1c-ae50-99ca8e491d2d" data-linktype="relative-path">2.2</a>
and <a href="../ms-erref/0642cb2f-2075-4469-918c-4441e69c548a" data-linktype="relative-path">2.1</a>.</p><dl>
<dd>
<table><thead>
  <tr>
   <th>
   <p>Return value/code</p>
   </th>
   <th>
   <p>Description</p>
   </th>
  </tr>
 </thead><tbody><tr>
  <td>
  <p>0x00000000</p>
  <p>S_OK</p>
  </td>
  <td>
  <p>The call was successful.</p>
  </td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd>
<dd>
<p>For any other condition, this method MUST return a
value that is not one of the values listed in the preceding table. The client
MUST behave in an identical manner for all return values not listed in the
preceding table.</p>
</dd></dl><p>Exceptions Thrown: No exceptions are thrown beyond those
thrown by the underlying <a href="b30bcd1c-8ff6-46d2-a27e-61bd85ace9f4#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><p>The <a href="b30bcd1c-8ff6-46d2-a27e-61bd85ace9f4#gt_e127848e-c66d-427d-b3aa-9f904fa4ada7" data-linktype="relative-path">opnum</a>
field value for this method is 4.</p><p>When processing this call, the server MUST do the following:</p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Construct the <b>ClusterUpdates</b> collection consisting of the
list of software updates installed on the local server, using an implementation-specific
mechanism.</p>
</li></ul><p>The server returns the following information to the client:</p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>The number of updates in the ClusterUpdates collection.</p>
</li></ul></div>