About Jason Rutherford

Managing Partner – Model Technology Solutions With over 18 years of Systems Management experience, Jason’s focus on people, process, and delivery has shaped Model into the consulting practice that it has become today. His approach to creating a consulting organization focused on creating IT efficiencies has led to strategic partnerships with Model’s clients. He believes in strong community support and that knowledge sharing is a critical factor to success.

The 12 tips of SCCM

By Jason Rutherford|2016-12-21T15:08:34+00:00December 21st, 2016|Uncategorized|

I'm feeling festive so I'm writing a holiday themed blog... Well kinda. Okay so here's a list of 12 SCCM tricks/tips that I use throughout many of my engagements. Some [...]

Configuration Manager Current Branch: Non-Trusted Domains

By Jason Rutherford|2016-11-03T14:04:38+00:00November 3rd, 2016|SCCM|

Howdy! I'm going to make this blog short and to the point because this topic can be cumbersome and intimidating to approach. It was difficult finding a concise blog giving me [...]

Azure Automation Runbook to interact with On-Prem SQL via Hybrid Runbook Worker

By Jason Rutherford|2016-07-29T15:25:21+00:00July 29th, 2016|Azure|

Hi all, I've been spending several of my minutes lately reading and writing to an on-prem SQL DB via a Hybrid Runbook Worker from Azure Auotmation; so I figured I'd share some [...]

Server 2016 TP5

By Jason Rutherford|2016-06-03T10:39:47+00:00June 3rd, 2016|Uncategorized|

Server 2016 is right around the corner and I'm sure everyone has copious amounts of free time to learn about the new features in Server 2016...No? This post can serve [...]

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2012 R2 DirectAccess

By Jason Rutherford|2016-04-12T11:06:30+00:00January 15th, 2015|DirectAccess|

Looking to do 2012 R2 DirecAccess? You only want a single nic? And you want to use a NAT? Well read on then! Recently we implemented DirectAccess for [...]

CRM Outlook Plug-in with Office 365

By Jason Rutherford|2016-04-18T12:38:56+00:00September 30th, 2014|Office 365|

Recently I ran across an issue getting my outlook 2013 CRM plug-in connecting to our Office 365 CRM instance. I ran through the typical solutions: Repairing the CRM installation Reinstalling [...]

Patching SQL AlwaysOn with Orchestrator

By Jason Rutherford|2016-04-18T12:38:56+00:00September 17th, 2014|Orchestrator|

Patching SQL AlwaysOn with Orchestrator is a bit different than the patching Hyper-V clusters with Orchestrator. If you've looked up the community runbook for cluster patching from Neil Peterson found [...]

System partition not set – PXE Boot SCCM 2012 SP1 CU3

By Jason Rutherford|2016-04-12T11:09:27+00:00June 25th, 2014|SCCM|

So the system partition not set.. huh? Read on… In SCCM 2012 SP1 Cu3 you have the ability to deploy Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1, right…? Well yes, but [...]