[Q] Syncing Tasks on Outlook and Exchange with OneNote on WP7?

[DuoM]

So it looks like there is no way to sync Tasks from Outlook on the Desktop or from an Exchange Server to Outlook in WP7

I'm looking for a solution and I think that it may be possible to use OneNote for this. However I'm not sure if OneNote on WP7 will support Tasks; also I'm not sure of what will be required elsewhere for this to happen.

Firstly does anyone know if OneNote if OneNote on WP7 supports Tasks and Task syncing (with the online version of OneNote)? If it does does anyone know if it will be possible to use the online version of OneNote to sync with Tasks on an Exchange Server and then to OneNote on WP7 or would I need a desktop installation that would sync to my Outlook and then sync online?

Also if anyone has another idea I'd love to hear it

Thanks.

 

[N8ter]

Thats not what onenote is for. Thats why outlook exists. No...

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[chubnut]

I forgot all about tasks and notes

Are they sync'd using Exchange? I don't have my phone yet so don't even know what the phones functionality is in this area

 

[DuoM]

Thats not what onenote is for. Thats why outlook exists. No...

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This is why Outlook AND OneNote exist on the Desktop but on Windows Phone 7 there is no syncing of Tasks (or Notes) from Outlook/Exchange, even with Exchange 2010.

On the Desktop OneNote does handle Tasks and it can sync Tasks with Outlook, with OneNote on Windows Mobile (although the WM version doesn't really know what to do with anything other than normal text or a list) and with OneNote in The Cloud.

I don't know what the OneNote version on WP7 can do (other than sync with The Cloud) or if it can handles Tasks but I do know that there are no Tasks in Outlook on WP7 or as a separate Microsoft application.

I forgot all about tasks and notes

Are they sync'd using Exchange? I don't have my phone yet so don't even know what the phones functionality is in this area

Notes and Tasks in Outlook/Exchange are not synced at all with WP7. This is the problem.

You can transfer your Notes to OneNote and use that rather than Outlook/Exchange for notes and that should sync with the cloud and with your device but I don't know if it will work for Tasks. [I think that you may need the desktop version of OneNote installed to transfer the notes across.]

 

[chubnut]

Thanks for that.

I'm in the process of putting SBS 2008 on one of my machines at home which I think comes with Exchange too. If not I'll bung ES 2010 on there too and do some testing once I stick One Note on the machine.

So there are no tasks at all on WP7?

 

[DuoM]

Thanks for that.

I'm in the process of putting SBS 2008 on one of my machines at home which I think comes with Exchange too. If not I'll bung ES 2010 on there too and do some testing once I stick One Note on the machine.

So there are no tasks at all on WP7?

Yes, SBS 2008 comes with Exchange but that is Exchange 2007. Exchange 2010 has a lot of new features but one that is of most interest to me is that it can finally sync Notes OTA via ActiveSync to a client, which would be perfect... if WP7 supported it.

There is a beta program for the next release of SBS, which includes Exchange 2010.

As for Tasks, no there are no Tasks in WP7 at the moment and no information as to if or when they will be added. You should be able to use OneNote on WP7 for Tasks as long as it has been improved over the Office Mobile 2010 version.

BTW I'm interested to know if I can search a server using ActiveSync from WP7. Engadget said that you can't but I got the impression that they were using Gmail, which isn't a complete implementation of the features of Exchange so if you have a handset or if you are about to get a handset, I'd love to know.

Thanks