<div class="content"><p>RpcDeletePrinterKey deletes a specified key and all of its
subkeys for a specified printer.<a id="Appendix_A_Target_309"></a><a aria-label="Product behavior note 309" href="e81cbc09-ab05-4a32-ae4a-8ec57b436c43#Appendix_A_309" data-linktype="relative-path">&lt;309&gt;</a></p><dl>
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<div><pre> DWORD RpcDeletePrinterKey(
   [in] PRINTER_HANDLE hPrinter,
   [in, string] const wchar_t* pKeyName
 );
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</dd></dl><p><b>hPrinter: </b>A handle to a printer object that
was opened by <a href="bd0bb8d5-26fd-4705-81f5-614d32b9f38f" data-linktype="relative-path">RpcAddPrinter (section 3.1.4.2.3)</a>,
<a href="3af45717-308f-4b4f-8428-430d12856110" data-linktype="relative-path">RpcAddPrinterEx (section 3.1.4.2.15)</a>,
<a href="989357e2-446e-4872-bb38-1dce21e1313f" data-linktype="relative-path">RpcOpenPrinter (section 3.1.4.2.2)</a>,
or <a href="0e81ce18-72b1-46c3-8584-a205393b04ff" data-linktype="relative-path">RpcOpenPrinterEx (section 3.1.4.2.14)</a>
methods.</p><p><b>pKeyName: </b>A pointer to a string that specifies
the key to delete. A key name is an arbitrary string defined by the <a href="831cd729-be7c-451e-b729-bd8d84ce4d24#gt_1a48eebd-e72c-494d-b8cb-84dfb7bc3b65" data-linktype="relative-path">printer driver</a> associated
with the printer object. For rules governing key names, see section <a href="c35aab90-57fc-4099-b388-6ec323ded6ec" data-linktype="relative-path">2.2.4.7</a>.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>This method MUST return zero
(ERROR_SUCCESS) to indicate successful completion or a nonzero Windows error
code to indicate failure <a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a>.</p><p>Upon receiving this message, the server MUST validate
parameters as follows:</p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Perform the validation steps that are specified in <a href="10bfa8c2-d456-4ad0-912d-e674766a36c8" data-linktype="relative-path">PRINTER_HANDLE
Parameters (section 3.1.4.1.11)</a>.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Verify that the <i>pKeyName</i> parameter points to a string that
complies with the rules for key names specified in section 2.2.4.7. If this
verification fails, return ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Additional validation MAY<a id="Appendix_A_Target_310"></a><a aria-label="Product behavior note 310" href="e81cbc09-ab05-4a32-ae4a-8ec57b436c43#Appendix_A_310" data-linktype="relative-path">&lt;310&gt;</a> be
performed.</p>
</li></ul><p>If parameter validation fails, the server MUST fail the
operation immediately and return a nonzero error response to the client.
Otherwise, the server MUST process the message and compose a response to the
client as follows:</p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Delete the printer data key indicated by the <i>pKeyName</i>
parameter and all the subkeys of that key.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Return the status of the operation.</p>
</li></ul></div>