<div class="content"><p>The CreateResourceGroup function creates a new <a href="e371cc74-bf4c-4870-8afe-5062cc628b4f#gt_04c2dc43-6f4a-432d-bca6-ceeef2d5f2ae" data-linktype="relative-path">resource group</a>.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> [id(3), helpstring(&#34;method CreateResourceGroup&#34;)] HRESULT CreateResourceGroup(
   [in] BSTR bstrResourceGroupInfo
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>bstrResourceGroupInfo: </b>A string that specifies
a new resource group, in the form of a <a href="b31d31ce-1030-43c6-abff-ea77edb2d5b7" data-linktype="relative-path">ProcessMatchingCriteria (section 2.2.5.24)</a>
element (section 2.2.5.24). For an example, see <a href="84880779-fe33-4629-8c94-31d81a429585" data-linktype="relative-path">ProcessMatchingCriteria</a>
example (section 4.2.20). </p><dl>
<dd>
<p>If this parameter is NULL, <b>E_INVALIDARG</b> MUST
be returned.</p>
</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>
  <p>0x00000000</p>
  <p>S_OK</p>
  </td>
  <td>
  <p>The operation was successfully done.</p>
  </td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>
  <p>0x80070057</p>
  <p>E_INVALIDARG</p>
  </td>
  <td>
  <p>One or more arguments are invalid.</p>
  </td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>
  <p>0xC1FF006F</p>
  <p>WRM_ERR_ID_VALUE</p>
  </td>
  <td>
  <p>The specified name contains characters that are not
  valid. The name cannot start with a hyphen (&#34;-&#34;), cannot contain
  spaces, and cannot contain any of the following characters:</p>
  <dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> \   / ? * | : &lt; &gt; &#34; , ;
</pre></div>
</dd></dl>
  </td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>
  <p>0xC1FF012F</p>
  <p>WRM_ERR_RESOURCEGROUPID_ALREADY_EXISTS </p>
  </td>
  <td>
  <p>The request has been aborted because the resource
  group with the specified name already exists.</p>
  </td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>
  <p>0xC1FF0136</p>
  <p>WRM_ERR_PMC_LIMIT_EXCEEDED</p>
  </td>
  <td>
  <p>The total number of resource groups has exceeded an implementation-defined
  limit.<a id="Appendix_A_Target_120"></a><a aria-label="Product behavior note 120" href="1af5b971-a682-44a0-affe-c98947d5e7f7#Appendix_A_120" data-linktype="relative-path">&lt;120&gt;</a>.</p>
  </td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>
  <p>0xC1FF0139</p>
  <p>WRM_ERR_CANNOT_CREATE_RESERVED_RESOURCEGROUP</p>
  </td>
  <td>
  <p>A user-created resource group cannot have the same
  name as that of a built-in resource group.</p>
  </td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd></dl><p>Additional <a href="a314adf4-0bff-40d1-a5b2-d909dcf176a3" data-linktype="relative-path">IWRMResourceGroup</a>
interface methods are specified in section 3.2.4.10.</p></div>