SmiKar Software

Melbourne, Australia
2015
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In today’s fast-paced, digitally-driven work environment, effective collaboration and content management are crucial for success. Microsoft offers two powerful tools to help you achieve these goals: Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. While both platforms are designed to enhance productivity, they serve distinct purposes. In this in-depth comparison, we’ll explore the strengths of each tool, examine real-world scenarios, and provide actionable tips to help you make informed decisions.
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Managing large volumes of documents in SharePoint Online can become challenging as storage needs grow. With rising storage costs and limits, organizations often look for efficient ways to offload files. One highly scalable and cost-effective solution is moving documents from SharePoint Online to Azure Blob Storage.
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For SharePoint Online administrators managing large environments, keeping track of storage usage is crucial to maintaining performance and controlling costs. One key factor contributing to storage consumption is document versioning. By default, SharePoint Online keeps up to 500 major versions of each document, and with frequent updates, this can quickly add up.
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Archiving is a crucial concept in both personal and business data management, ensuring that important information is preserved for future use without cluttering up active systems. In today’s digital world, where vast amounts of data are generated every second, understanding the value of archiving and how it works can help organisations stay efficient, compliant, and secure.
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In today’s digital era, organizations increasingly rely on collaboration platforms to enhance productivity and streamline workflows. Microsoft SharePoint stands out as a leading solution, offering robust features for document management, team collaboration, and information sharing. It enables teams to work together efficiently, regardless of their physical locations, by providing a centralized hub for content, knowledge, and applications.
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In today’s interconnected business world, external collaboration is essential. SharePoint Online provides the flexibility to share documents with external partners, clients, and vendors, but this can also expose organizations to data security risks. Securing external sharing while ensuring smooth collaboration is key to maintaining trust and protecting sensitive information. Here’s how you can achieve that balance.
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As businesses continue to generate and store massive amounts of data, effective document management becomes increasingly important. SharePoint Online, one of Microsoft 365’s core collaboration tools, allows organisations to store, share, and manage documents effortlessly. However, simply storing data isn’t enough—effective archiving is essential to ensure compliance, optimize storage costs, and preserve critical information for the long term.
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The SharePoint REST API is a powerful tool that allows developers to interact with SharePoint data and resources remotely. Whether you’re managing documents, configuring sites, or building custom applications, the REST API provides a flexible, efficient way to programmatically access and manipulate data within a SharePoint environment.
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In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses generate vast amounts of data every day. Managing this data efficiently is crucial for ensuring smooth operations and long-term success. That’s where archiving software comes into play. This article will break down what archiving software is, why it’s essential, and how it can benefit your organization. We’ll also take a closer look at Squirrel, an innovative archiving solution for SharePoint Online.
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Welcome to the comprehensive SharePoint glossary. This resource is designed to help you understand the various terms and concepts associated with SharePoint, a powerful platform used for collaboration, document management, and business processes. Whether you are new to SharePoint or looking to deepen your existing knowledge, this glossary provides clear and detailed explanations to guide you through the complexities of the platform.
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See how you can gain insights in to your Azure Blob Storage with Cloud Storage Manager. Want to Know Why Your Azure Storage costs have increased?
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Azure Management Tools by SmiKar Software. See how our Azure Management tools can automate your daily tasks.
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Schedule snapshot creation and deletion of single and multiple VMs easily with SnapShot Master.
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SnaPatch Patch Management Addon for SCCM. Schedule, then snapshot your VMs before deploying your updates automatically.
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See how Carbon can automate the migration of your virtual machines from Azure IAAS back to your on premise HyperV environment.
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Is Patch Management causing you stress? Worried the latest round of Microsoft Updates are going to cause you an issue? See how SnaPatch can help.
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See how SnaPatch can help alleviate your patch management stress. SnaPatch, the perfect addon for Microsoft's SCCM. Dont let your monthly patch deployment stress you out.
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See how AVMD (Azure VM Deployer) can easily and quickly automate your VM deployment in Azure.
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If you have the need for further functionality while scheduling the shutdown and power on of your Azure VMs with orchestration.
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Do you need to migrate your VMs within Azure from Azure Service Manager to Azure Resource Manager? Maybe you need to clone one of your Azure VMs fast and easily? Perhaps you need to create a clone of your VM (to be used like a snapshot) while you patch or upgrade components of your server and avoid having issues with a risky upgrade?

SmiKar Software was founded with one thing in mind – creating tools that would make it easier to administer an ever growing, risk adverse, complex environment.

We pride ourselves on customer service and developing tools to help people manage their environment. We are constantly developing further tools to aid the Administrator.

Our Products:

  • Cloud Storage Manager: With Cloud Storage Manager you will be able to instantly see where all your storage is going, allowing you to take back control and save money.
  • Carbon: With Carbon you can easily migrate your Azure virtual machines to your on-premise environment quickly and easily.
  • SnapShot Master: View Snapshot information for your virtual environment, Schedule Snapshot creation or deletions, receive email notifications and more.
  • SnaPatch: Automate and Schedule a Snapshot of your virtual machines prior to the deployment of updates.
  • Azure VM Scheduler / Orchestrator: AVMS automates scheduled startup and shutdown of Azure Virtual Machines and can perform multiple granular power schedules.
  • Azure VM Cloner: AVMC connects to your Microsoft Azure subscriptions and allows you to view all of your virtual machines within Azure.

We live by our motto, AUTOMATION is the KEY to our SOFTWARE.