<div class="content"><p>The IUpdate::Categories (opnum 12) method retrieves a
collection of the categories to which the update belongs.</p><dl>
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<div><pre> HRESULT Categories(
   [out, retval] ICategoryCollection** retval
 );
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</dd></dl><p><b>retval: </b>An <b>ICategoryCollection</b> instance
containing the categories to which this update belongs.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>The method MUST return
information in an <b>HRESULT</b> 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>The server SHOULD return the value of the <b>Categories</b>
ADM element.</p></div>