Many UnApproved and Duplicated Computer Accounts

Hello everybody,
I wish that everything is great for you!
I have a client with a problematic ConfigMgr 2012 R2 RTM environment, among the different problems the two big ones (and the ones that I think if resolved the resolving of the remaining would be easy) are:
1- Most of the computer accounts that had the client installed and were working probably, suddenly become Unapproved. the customer deployed Symantec EndPoint Protection since two weeks, the Symantec policy has no changes to the firewall and he didn't change
any firewall rules since.
today, while troubleshooting the agent still exist on the machine but with only two actions and the status on the ConfigMgr Console differ from Active and unapproved to No Client. the only solution that worked for me is to manually approve the computer then
push the agent to it. this method worked on two test computers, before I go further I just wanted to know why this happen.
Note: the manual approve then push the agent happened while Symantec inplace and the agent installed successfully.
I tried the clientlocation, locationservices, clientstartupIDmanager, and CCMEXEC log files and they all clear.
2- the second problem is that the customer have about 30 duplicated computer (names), I tried the different solution s I've found on the internet, and no one worked for me, even the delete of all records regenerate 2 accounts with the same name, also tried
to delete the one with the old discovery date, or the one with no client and also the deleted record comes back again
3- the third issue wich i think is related to the second one is that computer accounts that exist on the ConfigMgr but have been deleted from the AD and DNS, after manully deleting those records from the ConfigMgr they appear again
thanks in advanced.

Check that from Symantec you've excluded the proper ConfigMgr client directories, registry keys and services.
Another test, un-manage a few clients from Symantec and see if the problem persists.
Regarding the duplicate computer names, and DNS, check that you've got DNS scavenging enabled for DNS. For some background on that: https://stevethompsonmvp.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/configmgr-why-you-need-to-implement-dns-scavenging/

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