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What Do the Eight Digits of an Insurer Number Tell You? — Law-Type Numbers, Prefecture Numbers and Check Digits Read from a Receipt Computer's Implementation
The insurer number on a Japanese health insurance card is made up of a 2-digit law-type number, a 2-digit prefecture number, a 3-digit per-insurer number and...
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Parameter Design and Modularization for PowerShell Scripts — From a Script That Works to a Script You Can Hand Over
A step-by-step procedure for raising a PowerShell script to a quality you can hand to someone else. Covers the param block and [CmdletBinding()], input valid...
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Reading Faxed Purchase Orders With AI Builder — A Realistic Design for Cutting Manual Data Entry, and Where It Stops
A walkthrough of how to cut manual entry of faxed purchase orders using AI Builder document processing: turning faxes into PDFs on the MFP, training a custom...
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Taking Inventory of a File Server with PowerShell — Capacity Analysis and Access Permission (ACL) Auditing
A practical procedure for taking inventory of a file server with PowerShell. Covers capacity analysis and recording access denials, listing old files and ext...
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Power Automate Licensing — How Far Microsoft 365 Gets You for Free, and When You Need Premium
Within Microsoft 365 you can build and run cloud flows on standard connectors at no extra cost, but premium connectors such as HTTP, SQL Server, and Datavers...
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Code Design for Business Systems — Deciding Product and Customer Codes, and Check Digits
A practical guide to deciding the code scheme for a business system, including product and customer codes. Covers a decision table for meaningful codes versu...
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An Introduction to PowerShell Remoting (WinRM) — Managing Multiple Windows Machines at Once
An introduction to managing multiple Windows machines at once with PowerShell Remoting (WinRM). Covers how it works and ports 5985/5986, what Enable-PSRemoti...
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Building an Intake for Internal Requests with Microsoft Forms — Consolidating Email and Verbal Requests into a Form
A practical guide to consolidating the email and verbal requests that land on IT, general affairs, and accounting into Microsoft Forms. Covers question desig...
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What Does the Electronic Prescription Change in a Receipt Computer? — Reading ORCA's Electronic Prescription Support in the Source Code
What does a receipt computer actually need in order to support electronic prescriptions? From the table design in ORCA (Nichi-Rece) that manages prescription...
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The Differences Between Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7 — A Practical Guide to Migrating In-House Scripts
The relationship between Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7 (side-by-side coexistence and pwsh.exe), Microsoft's official position that 5.1 gets no new ...