Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. After the rollout ...

Microsoft Excel will now disable blocked file types from workbook links by default The files will either fail to refresh or show a #BLOCKED error Other safety updates ...

In the company’s Microsoft 365 admin center message, it explained that the default behaviour on Excel will now prevent it from adding such references, and recommends users to stick to this setting.

Here is the scenario: Currently we have a NetApp setup with a pretty bad file/folder structure. We are trying to reorganize the files and folders into departments. Currently (\\hal\halvol1\data\Excel ...