Chipmunk is delivered as a preconfigured appliance for deployment in Microsoft Azure.
Once deployed, Chipmunk is managed entirely through the web portal. No other access is required or available.
The Chipmunk appliance is deployed into your organisation's Microsoft Azure tenant.
Once running, all management and configuration is performed through the Chipmunk web portal.
Once the appliance is deployed:
Chipmunk requires access to Microsoft 365 user data for archiving. To enable this, you must create an Azure AD App Registration and grant the following permissions.
This allows Chipmunk to connect securely and archive data from Exchange Online and OneDrive.
1. Go to the Azure Portal → Azure Active Directory → App registrations. 2. Click New Registration and follow the prompts to create your application. 3. Once created, note down the:
You will enter these details in the Chipmunk web portal under Settings.
After registering the app, grant the following Microsoft Graph API permissions.
Once the permissions are added, make sure to:
This will allow Chipmunk to access the required data when accounts are disabled and archiving begins.
Once the above steps are finished, Chipmunk is ready for configuration through the web portal to set Azure Blob Storage, Azure AI and Chipmunk settings.