I have a question about Outlook task syncing using a shared notebook in
OneNote. I have a work desktop computer and a personal laptop, both running
OneNote and Outlook. I organize my tasks via a shared Onenote notebook
stored on my USB drive. The Notebook syncing works fine, but the tasks
flagged for Outlook do not sync from one computer to the other. That is to
say... if i create a task in Onenote on my work computer, flag it as an
Outlook task, it will show up in my Outlook on that work computer. I then
sync the notebook to my USB drive, go home and sync the notebook on my
laptop. Now on my laptop the task notebook shows up with flagged tasks,
however the flags are slightly greyed out and when i mouse over then i get a
"task not yet found in Outlook" and these tasks do not show up in my laptop's
Outlook.

I assume there is no way around this... but thought i would ask. It would
be great to be able to keep both my desktop and laptop Outlook up to date
with my shared OneNote task notebook. Any suggestions?

On Feb 20, 10:28 am, moviegoer72
<moviegoe...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have a question about Outlook task syncing using a shared notebook in
> OneNote. I have a work desktop computer and a personal laptop, both running
> OneNote and Outlook. I organize my tasks via a shared Onenote notebook
> stored on my USB drive. The Notebook syncing works fine, but the tasks
> flagged for Outlook do not sync from one computer to the other. That is to
> say... if i create a task in Onenote on my work computer, flag it as an
> Outlook task, it will show up in my Outlook on that work computer. I then
> sync the notebook to my USB drive, go home and sync the notebook on my
> laptop. Now on my laptop the task notebook shows up with flagged tasks,
> however the flags are slightly greyed out and when i mouse over then i get a
> "task not yet found in Outlook" and these tasks do not show up in my laptop's
> Outlook.
>
> I assume there is no way around this... but thought i would ask. It would
> be great to be able to keep both my desktop and laptop Outlook up to date
> with my shared OneNote task notebook. Any suggestions?

There are focussed applications that would synch Outlook tasks.
Microsoft wants to force you to get Exchange server that would do this
for you but many applications get rid of the need for Exchange
server ...

look on this list ... http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm

or google : outlook task synch

FYI, this software would synch the tasks but might not synch the
Outlook<-->OneNote links.

I know we did a bunch of work to get this working but I guess there were
some gaps. I know if both machines are joined to the main mail server (via
Exchange for example) I believe they get the same GUID for the mailbox so
you can map to them on both machines.

That is the problem on your machine, the tasks aren't syncing to both
computers. Once you get that working it should be fine...once you create a
flagged note (aka on Outlook task) that task lives in Outlook and we depend
on Outlook to keep track of it.

Make sense?


"moviegoer72" <moviegoer72@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a question about Outlook task syncing using a shared notebook in
> OneNote. I have a work desktop computer and a personal laptop, both
> running
> OneNote and Outlook. I organize my tasks via a shared Onenote notebook
> stored on my USB drive. The Notebook syncing works fine, but the tasks
> flagged for Outlook do not sync from one computer to the other. That is
> to
> say... if i create a task in Onenote on my work computer, flag it as an
> Outlook task, it will show up in my Outlook on that work computer. I then
> sync the notebook to my USB drive, go home and sync the notebook on my
> laptop. Now on my laptop the task notebook shows up with flagged tasks,
> however the flags are slightly greyed out and when i mouse over then i get
> a
> "task not yet found in Outlook" and these tasks do not show up in my
> laptop's
> Outlook.
>
> I assume there is no way around this... but thought i would ask. It would
> be great to be able to keep both my desktop and laptop Outlook up to date
> with my shared OneNote task notebook. Any suggestions?
>