assign tasks through Outlook Tasks

[Keith]

I would like assigned task to show in Outlook Tasks not the Calendar. How do
I accomplish this?

 

[SEMM]

You don't.... They mislead us into believing that MS Project would import
Tasks from Outlook. Outlook tasks will no longer work when you install MS
project. If you were thinking as I was that someone could send you tasks in
Outlook and they could be imported into Project, updated, and completed while
still being able to provide the task feedback through Outlook you were
wrong.... I'm back to using pen and paper after buying MS Project... It broke
the task feature in Outlook and they have yet to resolve the problem.....
Take it back to the store, if they accept software refunds.... wonder why
most don't, it's becuase of developers like this who put out buggy
software... and purchase something else that acutally works. You can't even
do billing, unless you puchase other software....... A complete waste of
time and money MS is.

 

[Steve House]

You can't do billing because Project is a work planning tool, not an
accounting tool, a time and billing tool, nor a personal time management
tool. It's designed to help the person responsible for defining the work to
be done by a team of resources and coordinating their work, scheduling their
activities so that they meet a specific, defined, time-limited goal. It
care's about how you get the work done, not whether you get paid for it -
that's the job of other tools.

You are mistaken when you say it breaks Outlook. I have both Outlook and
Project installed on this computer I'm typing at right now and both
applications are working just fine, including Outlook's task and task
assignment tools. If you're referring to Project's Workgroup Email task
assignment tools that interact with Outlook - true, they were removed from
2003 in favour of the Project Server solution but can be restored with only
a little effort - all you needed to do was a minimal amount of research on
how to obtain, install, and use them properly and your problem would have
been solved.

Lord knows, MS does enough stuff wonky that they don't deserve badmouthing
for things that they haven't screwed up.

 

[Keith]

Steve,

I did locate the Workgroup Email file I needed. However I cannot locate any
documentation on how to "tun on"the function once installed. The MS
Knowledge Base Entry is no longer available. Should you know where I could
find said Documents I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

 

[Steve House]

Try this URL http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818337/en-us