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Outlook Today and Tasks

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KVSmith59 - 14 Jul 2006 00:55 GMT
I posted this in General questions and got no response...it probably should
have gone here....Any help would be appreciated...

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Hi,

I'm very new to Outlook 2003, so I've probably done this the hard
way.....We've got a small 3 person company.  In order to keep our calendars,
tasks, and contacts synch'd, we went ahead and signed up for a hosted
exchange service.  As email is really a very small part of our business, we
only signed up for one exchange email account.  We've been able to synch the
calendar and contacts without any problems....we haven't been able to synch
the Tasks though.  We want it set up so that we can look at each other's
tasks and make changes to those tasks if needed.  Sharing doesn't work
because we only have the one email account set up.  

As a work around, we created a 2nd task folder called "shared tasks".  For
whatever reason, that folder and all of it's tasks show up and synch
correctly on each of our computers.  So basically, everything is working the
way we need it too.  However, on Outlook Today, we can't seem to figure out
how to get those "shared tasks" to show up under the Task heading.  We can
get the folder itself to show up under the "messages" part of Outlook Today,
but not under the Task part.  If you click on the Task heading itself it
takes you directly to the original tasks folder.  It's only a cosmetic thing,
but it would be nice to have the tasks under "shared tasks" showing up under
the Task heading.  Is there a way to assign the "shared tasks" folder to the
Task heading in Outlook today?  (gee...hope all of this makes sense! )

thanks!

Kevin
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 14 Jul 2006 03:01 GMT
YOu didn't say whether this "shared tasks" folder is in a mailbox or in the Public Folders hierarchy. it matters.

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>I posted this in General questions and got no response...it probably should
> have gone here....Any help would be appreciated...
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> Kevin
KVSmith59 - 14 Jul 2006 05:38 GMT
It's in a mailbox.....

> YOu didn't say whether this "shared tasks" folder is in a mailbox or in the Public Folders hierarchy. it matters.
>
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> > Kevin
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 14 Jul 2006 12:22 GMT
So this is a task folder that you created, not the default Tasks folder? If so, you won't be able to get it under Outlook Today unless you create your own custom Outlook Today web page; see http://www.digidashlive.com 

What version of Outlook?
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
  Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
    http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
  and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
    Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
    http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx
 

> It's in a mailbox.....
>
>> YOu didn't say whether this "shared tasks" folder is in a mailbox or in the Public Folders hierarchy. it matters.

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>> >I posted this in General questions and got no response...it probably should
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>> > Kevin
 
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