I deleted a collection and wanted to recreate it. When I do it says the name already exists. I ran a collection report and do see the collection in the report but it doesn't show up where I put it. I wish the report actually showed a nested collection structure to make sure there isn't another folder with that same name elsewhere. Any ideas how to get that collection deleted? David Jenkins

Do you remember the collection ID, if so check the collevaluator and see if it's still being updated.Kent Agerlund | My blogs: http://blog.coretech.dk/author/kea/ and http://scug.dk/ | Twitter @Agerlund | Linkedin: /kentagerlund

It doesnt' say much. I have two entires and the just talk about updating the collection. Nothing about deleting it.David Jenkins

Have you ever used any sort of script to create collections? Whilst the console doesn't allow you to create more than one collection with the same name, if using a script, you are able to create as many as you can with the same name. So, if you ever used a script, you might have ended up with two collections with the same name. You deleted one, the other still exists. Also, if you created it using a script, the collection might be un-parented, which means it would be impossible to see it through the console. The way to find it out if that's the case is to use a script to search for all collections with a given name. If, on the other hand, it is as you said on your second post and the collection is gone from the GUI but you see nothing on the logs about deleting it, you can still use a script to delete a collection by collectionID (regardless of if it's seen on the GUI or not). cogu

Try this. check the colleval.log to see for any errors. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrgeneral/thread/663a83de-aa42-4f57-855d-8b61657c0c72

Will do, thanks.David Jenkins

One more thing you can do is to locate the location of the collection. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrreporting/thread/d5afe0dc-562e-441c-a856-eb4f2cb97de2/

If this is just for 1 collection here is a quick t-sql command to get the parent collection. You'll have to rerun it for each level. select col.CollectionID, col.[Name], pCOLname.CollectionID [Parent CollectionID], pCOLname. [Name] [Parent Name] from v_Collection as COL inner join v_CollectToSubCollect pCOLid on COL.CollectionID = pCOLid. subCollectionID inner join v_Collection pCOLname on pCOLname.CollectionID = pCOLid. parentCollectionID where col.Name = '<collection name>' Thanks

I've checked and it shows the collection is still located where I deleted it. The problem is that it is invisible to me. I can't make it visible and so I can't delete it again. I see no errors in the logs.David Jenkins

You could use the SDK to delete the collection: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc143328.aspxTorsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de

David, have you tried checking the colleval.log ? See if you can spot any errors suggesting issues with deletion of collection. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrgeneral/thread/663a83de-aa42-4f57-855d-8b61657c0c72/

No luck. I've searched and there are no errors. I've restarted the services to see if it picks up whatever the problem is and corrects itself.David Jenkins

Then maybe you should try what "Torsten" has provided. That should surely help.