UpdateCategoryType

Defines constants that describe the different update categories.

Members

Member	Description	Value
Company	Company distributing the update.	0
Product	Product category under which the update falls. For example, all Windows related updates.	1
ProductFamily	Product family under which the update falls. For example, Windows XP.	2

Remarks

The root category is the company category. The company category can have one or more subcategories known as product family categories. Product family categories contain one or more product categories. For example, the company category for Microsoft is Microsoft Corporation. The Microsoft Corporation category contains the Windows product family category, which in turn contains product categories, such as the Windows Server 2003 family and the Windows XP family.

Requirements

Server	Requires Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Server SP4 and later.
Namespace	Defined in Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.
Assembly	Requires Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration (in Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.dll).
.NET Framework	Requires .NET Framework 1.1.

See Also

GetUpdateCategories(), IUpdateCategory.ProhibitsSubcategories, IUpdateCategory.ProhibitsUpdates, IUpdateCategory.Type, IUpdateServer.GetRootUpdateCategories