How to keep PCs in server's Safegaurd Management Center after they are removed in AD

Question

The syncing between our AD and SMC is working flawlessly, but we've recently added a new policy that removes machines from our AD after a few months of no logins. 
 So when a user finally dusts off their secondary laptop, but can't remember their password, we're screwed. When we delete it out of AD it seems to be completely removed without a trace from SMC, making any sort of C/R or virtual client recovery impossible. 
 I know these machines are gone forever now, but how can we stop this in the future? What SMC setting could I adjust so that our units will always remain in SMC to be recoverable after we've removed them from AD? We're Currently running a mixture of SGE 8.1 and 8.0.

Adithyan Thangaraj · Answer

Hi Michael, 
 Removing a machine from AD and synchronizing with SMC should not result in removal of PC and its traced in the console too. Rather the recovery key (if you are worried about SafeGuard volume based encryption) should be still available under Keys --> inactive keys. You can search for those keys with the following keyword: "Boot_machinename" and this should most certainly bring it up. 
 Also Try searching for the machine name under Root to confirm if the machine is actually missing form the SMC completely! Weird one though, in case you have a support ticket, please do help me with the same via DM.