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Grok Bot Adds Outlook, Calendar and OneDrive Plugins to Act on Microsoft 365 Accounts

September 1, 2026 at 02:16 EDT

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xAI's Grok Bot can now search, send, and act across Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Calendar, and OneDrive through new first-party plugins, putting Microsoft 365 accounts directly into the agent workflow instead of a shared-browser workaround.

August 2026 · Grok Bot

Microsoft accounts enter the agent workflow

First-party Outlook, Outlook Calendar, and OneDrive plugins let Grok Bot search, send, and act on Microsoft 365 — without driving those apps in a shared browser.

From launch gap to first-party access

At launch

Aug 11 · no Microsoft plugins

Now shipping

Aug 27 · Outlook, Calendar, OneDrive

Microsoft plugins went from none at launch to three first-party connectors in about two weeks.

Microsoft plugins

Outlook, Calendar, OneDrive

Identity per plugin

One Microsoft account each

Still missing

SharePoint and Teams

How a Bot gets Microsoft access

Settings → Plugins

→

Install the three plugins

→

Entra ID sign-in

→

Bot reads, writes, acts

What teams welcome

Native send on Outlook and writes on Calendar, so a Bot can act without clicking through Outlook on the web — and without the login lockouts that workaround caused.

What still gives pause

One identity per plugin, OneDrive is read-only, and SharePoint and Teams still have no plugin. Several users said they would watch the first send before handing over a live inbox.

Conditions that still apply

Work or school account, then a human on the first send

Auth

OAuth against Entra ID; some orgs need admin approval.

Scope

Mail can send; calendar can write; OneDrive can read.

Boundary

Plugins belong to the Grok Bot account, not one Bot.

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