I have a central site and a primary child under it. I have created collections on the central site, added membership rules, and advertised software to those collections. On the primary child site, when I look at the properties of the collections, the advertisements are there but the membership rules are not. The rules in question are direct membership rules. Based on the following link, I dont see any reason it should not work. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632389.aspx Any suggestions?