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Outlook Tasks in Microsoft To-Do
I have started to give a look to Microsoft To-Do.
I am a (veeery) long time user of Outlook Tasks and I was pleased to see that Outlook Tasks got automatically synchronized in Microsoft To-Do. But I would have expected that Outlook Tasks reminders appeared automatically as To-Do reminders on my iPhone. Unfortunately this seems not to be the case: reminders are indeed set in To-Do but they don't trigger any kind of notification on the iPhone. Moreover, overdue Outlook Tasks don't appear automatically in My Day list in To-Do and it looks like I have to manually add them.
What am I missing?
- Microsoft To-App is not synced with Mobile Outlook app however still able to login to https://to-do.microsoft.com in the Managed Browser with company id..
Any thoughts Hi, Salvatore and @Candy Ho. Has the initial issue of To Do completely messing up dates on recurring tasks (and it seems non-recurring tasks) been addressed? I'd like to know if To Do is safe to use. Like you Salvatore, I have hundreds of tasks, many of which are recurring, and I can't risk this kind of issue. Thank you for any help you can provide!
As of TODAY, To-Do is NOT SAFE! Do not use it!
I just uninstalled it again, after another failed test.
Hi Beverly Beyer.
The issue appears to have been addressed.
Now I am using To-Do without problems, also if it has very few features, compared with full-fledged Outlook Tasks, but at least it does not mess things up...
Just TODAY, To-Do began messing up my Outlook tasks, so I uninstalled it.
We use Hosted Exchange via AppRiver. I looked at MS's To-Do, but since it does not seem to work with Tasks (Outlook or OWA) we ruled it out. Apparently the importer only works with Wunderlist and Todolist, which we do not use.
Microsoft bought Wunderlist and merged it into To-Do, so Wunderlist no longer works in Outlook. <sigh>
- I expect it will only work with Exchange Online and not hosted Exchange.
i am a user of outlook, and am trying to get along with todo.
i also use exchange from where i create tasks. Those tasks do appear in Outlook (client & online) but not in Todo. Will this be solved anytime soon?
Hi Salvatore,
In opposite to you I'm not a big fun of Outlook Tasks, but also started to play with To-Do. I use two accounts
1) Private on O365 Home connected to iPhone app
2) Work one with O365 E3 conected to Desktop and Win10 Mobile apps
Can't say right now about first option, but for the second one it looks like mobile app doesn't sync tasks in the background. You have to open (or re-open) phone app to sync after any change in tasks. After that reminders appear on the phone and it shows correctly all tasks, includes overdue one. Doesn't matter where they were created, in Desktop app or directly in Outlook.
Thanks Sergei.
This morning the notifications appeared on my iPhone.
Unfortunately, though, Microsoft To-Do TOTALLY screwed my Outlook Tasks, changing all the start dates of the recurring tasks (and also of some other non-recurring tasks): really a mess!
Luckily, before activating To-Do (being it a preview...), I made a backup of all my Outlook Tasks (that in my case are about 200) and therefore I have been able to restore them without further problems.
Well, I think To-Do has still a long journey to-do (pun intended) before being ready with Outlook Tasks integration, so I give up for the moment.
We will see...
cc Candy Ho
Agree, Tasks has a long way to go. There's currently little similarity with Outlook 2016 (Tasks) and the Tasks app itself. The Outlook version of Tasks is far more detailed and when you try to mix the two you get the issues you refer to.
