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by sue

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Can anybody help me with a task assignment problem? I have one computer with Outlook 2000 that when assigning a task, the user performs that action correctly as far as I can tell. The problem is during a task assignment the receiver of the task cannot accept, decline or complete the task. The task appears on the senders task list as an assigned task, but does not appear on the recipients task list. I can't find any settings for this under options. I know it's not the settings for the recipient as she is able to receive tasks from other people.
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by lordinfidel

If the 2 systems are not in an exchange setting then this can be part of the problem.

The recipient system is unable to update it's free/busy data, Actually it would not have/know about free/busy data unless it was part of an exchange enviroment.

by sue

I wouldn't think that free/busy has anything to do with tasks. Appointments yes, but not tasks. Add to that the fact that it works on every other machine. That leads me to believe there is a setting that's incorrect on the task requesting laptop.

by lordinfidel

I did do a test though,

I sent a task request from my system (2k/exch) to my non exchange e-mail system.

When I viewed the task request sent to that location, it was just a plain text e-mail. You could not do anything with it.

But you saidit works with other systems.

Is the receiving client using outlook also?

by sue

Yeah, we're all on Outlook without Exchange and I have tested with every system. It just seems to be that one.

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