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Issue #165 / 10-AUG-26

Bring your organization’s data into Excel with new Copilot synced connectors

With Copilot in Microsoft Excel, you can bring connected data into your workbook to understand, model, and act on it. New Copilot connectors are now generally available in Excel, bringing your organization’s connected content - work items, tickets, database rows, CRM records, and docs - straight into the grid, allowing you to put Excel’s full analytical engine to work on it.

Accelerating Frontier Transformation: Enrich employee experience

When thoughtfully integrated into everyday work, AI has the potential to expand what we can do. It can help us explore and solve new kinds of problems, synthesize information to support decisions, and reduce time spent on some repetitive tasks. This can ultimately create more space for us to apply our expertise, develop new skills, contribute ideas, and focus on more meaningful, higher-value work.

Writeback for Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes: Now Generally Available

Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes allow you to transfer the Source of Authority (SOA) for a directory-synchronized mailbox's Exchange attributes to Exchange Online. The user identity remains synchronized from on-premises Active Directory but Exchange attributes become editable in Exchange Online. Writeback extends this capability by synchronizing a critical set of Exchange attribute changes from Exchange Online back to on-premises Active Directory through Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync.