Script to add computers to AD overwrites existing names???

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I’ve got a script that creates and then adds computers to AD based on certain characteristics of the user. It auto generates a name then checks AD to see if the name is available if not it generates an other name and so on until it finds a free name. At least that is what it is supposed to do. The last 2 times I’ve run it, its decided that a name already in use is ok to take. I didn’t know it was even possible to add a name to AD that already existed.
So, I’m not sure if this is a PowerShell thing or an AD thing. Anyone experienced this?

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So AD has 2 objects with the same name? How do you know it “took” the existing name?

Code would probably help, too, btw…

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Ya so, um, the thing is this…apparently someone in my organization was going through and “cleaning out” old or apparently unused names. So if we could just pretend this never happened…

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“I know nothing! I see nothing! I hear nothing!” - Sgt. Schultz

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Thanks!
I was going nuts trying to figure out how the heck a script could overwrite a name already in AD!!

Someone isn’t getting a Christmas card this year!