<div class="content" name="DeleteMachine" uuid="1fcfbfc7-4c13-4b71-b568-02d2f7fd66f9"><p>The DeleteMachine method deletes a machine from a <a href="e371cc74-bf4c-4870-8afe-5062cc628b4f#gt_f4153c8c-848d-4db5-b9cc-4113e5f1e406" data-linktype="relative-path">machine group</a>.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> [id(9), helpstring(&#34;method DeleteMachine&#34;)] HRESULT DeleteMachine(
   [in] BSTR bstrParentMachineGroupId,
   [in] BSTR bstrMachineId,
   BOOL bRecursive
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>bstrParentMachineGroupId: </b>A string that
specifies the identifier of the machine group that contains the machine to
delete.</p><dl>
<dd>
<p>If this parameter is NULL, <b>E_INVALIDARG</b> MUST
be returned.</p>
</dd></dl><p><b>bstrMachineId: </b>A string that specifies the
identifier of the machine to delete.</p><dl>
<dd>
<p>If this parameter is NULL, <b>E_INVALIDARG</b> MUST
be returned.</p>
</dd></dl><p><b>bRecursive: </b>A Boolean value that specifies
whether to recursively delete all instances of the specified machine.<a id="Appendix_A_Target_103"></a><a aria-label="Product behavior note 103" href="1af5b971-a682-44a0-affe-c98947d5e7f7#Appendix_A_103" data-linktype="relative-path">&lt;103&gt;</a></p><dl>
<dd>
<table><thead>
  <tr>
   <th>
   <p>Value</p>
   </th>
   <th>
   <p>Meaning</p>
   </th>
  </tr>
 </thead><tbody><tr>
  <td>TRUE 0x00000001</td>
  <td>All instances of the specified machine MUST be recursively searched in the specified machine group and deleted.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>FALSE 0x00000000</td>
  <td>Only a machine that is a direct child in the specified machine group SHOULD be deleted.</td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd></dl><p><b>Return Values: </b>This method returns 0x00000000
for success or a negative <a href="e371cc74-bf4c-4870-8afe-5062cc628b4f#gt_799103ab-b3cb-4eab-8c55-322821b2b235" data-linktype="relative-path">HRESULT</a>
value (in the following table or in <a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a>
section <a href="../ms-erref/705fb797-2175-4a90-b5a3-3918024b10b8" data-linktype="relative-path">2.1.1</a>)
if an error occurs.</p><dl>
<dd>
<table><thead>
  <tr>
   <th>
   <p>Return value/code</p>
   </th>
   <th>
   <p>Description</p>
   </th>
  </tr>
 </thead><tbody><tr>
  <td>0x00000000 S_OK</td>
  <td>Operation successful.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>0x80070057 E_INVALIDARG</td>
  <td>One or more arguments are invalid.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>0xC1FF0389 WRM_ERR_MACHINEGROUPID_INVALID</td>
  <td>The specified machine group ID is invalid.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>0xC1FF038A WRM_ERR_MACHINEID_INVALID</td>
  <td>The specified machine ID is not found.&lt;104&gt;</td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd></dl><p>Additional <a href="959a6150-11e3-44ec-b6cd-78da5b2c9e00" data-linktype="relative-path">IWRMMachineGroup</a> interface
methods are specified in section 3.2.4.6.</p></div>