Duplicate Machine in System Center Virtual Machine Manager Showing as Incomplete Configuration

On occasion usually following a backup or replication job of a 2008 R2 Server in Hyper-V cluster, we get a duplicate server showing with the wrong hostname, and the status as incomplete configuration in SCVMM. Deleting the machine fails, so the following steps will enable us to remove it from SCVMM.

1. Open failover cluster manager to find the correct hostname of the machine with the error.
2. Login/remote desktop on to the incorrect host showing in vmm.
3. Open the machine properties of the incorrect machine in vmm, and locate the vhd path in the hardware settings.
4. On the incorrect host open the cluster storage path and open the pool folder.
5. Double click on the folder with the same name as the vhd path in the vhd properties.
6. Open the virtual machines folder.
7. In a new file explorer on the incorrect host open the following path: c:\programData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines
8. Find the shortcut xml file with the same name as the files in the cluster storage folder, and delete the shortcut.
9. Wait for vmm to update the status of the incorrect machine to missing, and you can now delete the machine.