Question About Inactive Clients / Re-Imaged Clients

Hopefully a quick question... We have client push installation enabled site-wide in our SCCM 2012 implementation. What is expected behavior if a workstation is rebuilt on the same hardware with the same name and the same AD computer account is
reused?
So, for example, one of my coworkers asked me about his workstation. He reinstalled Windows on it recently but the SCCM client hasn't installed since he rebuilt. SCCM shows the client (the one tied to his old SMS GUID I imagine) as inactive.
There is no ccmsetup folder in c:\windows on his newly built workstation - I can't find any evidence that the client attempted to install. I confirmed that the OU where his computer account is located does fall under the OU structure configured in Active
Directory System Discovery. He said that when he joined it to the domain he was prompted (as expected I believe) that there was already a computer account with the same name and asked if he wanted to use the existing account, which he did.
I'd just like to know what behavior should be expected in this scenario. I haven't checked yet but, given how frequently systems get re-imaged in our environment, unless this is abnormal behavior and an isolated instance, I may find I have quite a
few clients that no longer have SCCM installed due to having been re-imaged.

Hi,
The installed flag prevents Configuration Manager from reinstalling the client when automatic site-wide client push installation is enabled.
Delete aged discovery data
deletes inactive client records from the site database.
I think the newly built workstation should be assigned a new GUID.
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