Stop paying for ex-employees.
When a user leaves, Chipmunk archives their OneDrive, Exchange and Teams data into your own Azure subscription - automatically. Reclaim the Microsoft 365 license, keep the data forever, search it instantly.
Available now in the Azure Marketplace - search CHIPMUNK.
OneDrive · Exchange · Teams, all archived together
Triggered on disable in Entra ID
Archives stored in your Azure subscription
License cost math
10-20% of your Microsoft 365 licenses are on ex-employees right now.
Most enterprises keep paying for departed users because reclaiming a licence means losing the data - and legal, HR or compliance might need it months later. Chipmunk closes that gap: archive first, reclaim with confidence.
- 10-20% of seats typically held by departed users at any moment
- Each reclaimed M365 E3 licence saves ~$40/user/month
- For a 1,000-seat tenant, that is commonly $50,000-$150,000 reclaimed per year
- Data stays accessible for audit, eDiscovery, legal hold and HR review
Coverage
Every workload that holds your departed user's data.
Exchange Online
Capture entire mailboxes - including attachments and folder structure - into compressed archives in your Azure subscription.
OneDrive for Business
Preserve every file from a departing user's OneDrive with original folder hierarchy intact.
Microsoft Teams
Archive Teams chats, channels and shared files so collaboration history is never lost.
How it works
From the moment a user is offboarded to a reclaimed licence - automatically.
Detect the departure
Chipmunk watches Entra ID for disabled or removed accounts. The moment an admin offboards a user, the archive job is queued automatically - no scripts, no PSTs, no zip files.
Archive to your Azure
OneDrive, Exchange Online and Teams content for that user is captured and written to your own Azure Blob Storage account - in your subscription, in your region. SmiKar never holds a copy.
Reclaim the licence
Once the archive completes and the audit trail is in place, the Microsoft 365 licence can be safely removed. Data stays accessible for restore, compliance and eDiscovery - the payments stop.
Features
Built for IT, ready for legal.
Automated offboarding
Trigger archives when a user is disabled in Entra ID. No more manually exporting PSTs or zipping OneDrive folders.
Reclaim M365 licenses
Once data is safely archived in your Azure account, the user license can be removed - paying Microsoft per departed user is over.
Smart AI search
Azure Cognitive Search across all archives - filter by user, workload and keyword. Download results directly without restoring an entire mailbox.
Flexible restore
Restore a full account to a manager, a single email back to a user, or grab one OneDrive file - all on demand.
Entra ID integrated
User directory with license, status and archive state in one place. See exactly which licenses are safe to reclaim.
Real-time dashboard
Live job tracking, system health, storage consumed, archives in progress and recent completions - all in a single console.
Your tenant, your data
Archives live in your Azure Blob Storage in your subscription. No data ever sits in SmiKar infrastructure.
Granular reporting
Per-workload breakdowns, performance metrics, size distributions and a full audit trail for compliance.
In the product
Visibility from the dashboard down to a single email.
Reporting and trends
Archive job volume, storage growth and per-workload size distributions - visualised at a glance.
Smart AI search
Search any user's archived mailbox, OneDrive or Teams content and download results without a full restore.
Entra ID + license view
Find out which users still hold a paid M365 license but should have been archived weeks ago.
Granular and full restores
Bring a single chat, a folder or an entire mailbox back to a live account or SMB share.
FAQ
Common questions.
How much can we save in Microsoft 365 license costs?
What data does Chipmunk capture?
How does restore work?
Where do archives physically live?
Is Chipmunk compliant with our retention requirements?
How does Chipmunk compare to Exchange Online Archiving?
How do I deploy Chipmunk?
How many M365 licenses are you still paying for?
We'll look at your tenant, identify the departed users still holding licenses, and show you what reclaiming them would save.