I'm trying to synchronize my PDA (MIO A701) and work computer (with Vista installed on it).
I've found that there are two types of objects in Outlook: tasks and letters that are marked with TODO flag (but they are not tasks). Objects of both these types could be found in Outlook section "tasks" but only first type of tasks are copied by Win Mobile Device Center to my PDA.
Objectively I need the second type of tasks on my device (letters that are marked with TODO flag).
If anybody knows how to get them to my PDA task section - I would be grateful.
Thank you in advance.
been a dead thread for a while, but ditto here.. would like to get my outlook flagged to do as well as tasks sync'd to other platforms such as iphone, icloud or gmail. (gmail is not as nice as is doe not have the prioritization options)
The built in apple exchange sync only picks up tasks
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I have converted from Palm to WM5, and am really missing Agendus for two very important (to me) features.
Firstly I need software that can link people to appointments and then when a contact is selected will show up that contacts history ( a chronological list of all their appointments)
Secondly I need to have custom field in the contact infomation which will sync either to specified fields in Outlook 2003 or will add the custom fields to the contact notes on outlook.
Inesoft Address book though unstable does have custom fields.
But nothing I have foound has true contact history.
Thanks for all your help
Wow!!! From Palm? Which device did you do it to? Which device's ROM did you port over?
all the excitement of a reply - only to find it is a smart ass comment. would you like the word "migrate" more
Could you have been a bit less violent in answering?
Try Pocket Informant. You can find it on the same website (under Windows Mobile section) of Agendus. Hope it helps
Thanks for that. I tried both Pocket informant and Agenda fusion. Both are better than the built in PIM management, but neither offer Contact History or custom fields.
I have a Tilt and use exchange 2007 for syncing email, contacts, task, calendar. I use the tasks feature also in outlook. What I would like to be able to do and it doesn’t seem to work is Flag an email for follow up and then have that move into my tasks folder. If I flag an email from my phone it shows on my desktop under tasks and to-do list, but anything in this to-do list never shows in the tasks on my Tilt. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. If anyone has a suggestion I would greatly appreciate it. I need to find a way to be more organized with my email and following up on projects. Thank you for the help in advance.
I don't believe you to be doing anything wrong. It may have to do with differentiating between a defined task and the follow-up being not really a task, but more of a reminder. FWIW, I can duplicate that behavior on my WM6.1 device.
TMKnight, Thanks for the reply. Since this seems to be the way it works does anyone have any ideas on how I can do what I want. I would like to be able to creats tasks or to-do lists from my emails and even add just regualar to-do's (tasks). Alot of my tasks are associated with emails and I would like to attach them some how to the tasks since they usually have info I need when completing a task.. Thanks for the help. This site is the best for finding answeres to our mobile life.
My tasks sync both ways so maybe you haven't selected tasks to sync in active sync options/settings. As for associating emails with tasks from WM, copy and paste is the easiest but does not retain any linkage which makes that only marginally useful. There may be some other mail app that does this, possibly FlexMail.
from technet ...http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996303(EXCHG.80).aspx
Follow-Up Flag Support
Exchange 2007 ActiveSync lets you flag an e-mail message for follow up directly on your mobile device, exactly as if you handled the message in Microsoft Outlook. You can also mark a flagged message as completed. If you are using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, any items flagged on your mobile device will also appear in the Outlook 2007 To-Do bar.
I can't check, as we have Exchange 2003.
Does this work for somebody with Exchange 2007?
Does this also work in opposite manner (flag in Outlook 2007 and see in Tasks WM61)?
Good point about Exchange 2007 - yes flagging is only working in that version. I can confirm flagging worked both ways.
bump on this issue, i am having the same problem.
Using Exchange 2007, I can flag an email and it shows up in my Outlook Tasks on my PC but not on my WM 6.1 Tasks
Email flags synchronize with windows mobile
Has somebody already found the solutuion how to make to show the email flags in outlook 2007 within the task list on windows mobile 6.5 device? The normal task synchronization works with no problem, but flagged emails dont show within the task list on windows mobile - only in the outlook 2007 (works only one way).
hi
even i am also looking for that, followup to synchronize with ms-outlook 2007 any solution it will be great and moreover when we download the mail in htc hd2 any option to add as followup
This question has been raised many times, but I couldn't find a single definite answer. To sync with Outlook there is software like Touchdown (albeit only for MS Exchange) and cloud services like Soocial and Funambol. Now, how do you sync ALL fields in Contacts, for example, if they are not 100% identical with Google? The later lets you name your phone numbers, for example which is impossible in Outlook. I am using Outlook both for business and personal, and it would be very difficult to move away from it, especially as my company uses it for business. However, I find WM 6.5, or Windows Phone 7, or Blackberry not particularly suited for my personal needs. So I bought Optimus 2X, but I have not started using it, because I don't know how to painlessly migrate to it from HTC Touch Diamond 2 with WM 6.5, which is seamlessly integrated with Outlook. I have about 1600 well-organized contacts, many tasks, recurring calendar items, almost all of them with applied custom-made Outlook categories. Filtering and sorting by categories really simplifies things. I am daunted by the task of re-categorizing all of my outlook items by hand. But I need to start using Android somehow AND desktop and laptop versions of MS Outlook with the categories I have set up. What is the least painful way to do it? I can't believe there's only me faced with this problem. Thanks for your help!
I set up my wife's droid with CompanionLink / Google. Don't know about categories or syncing with exchange, as she only uses local outlook. Checkout CompanionLink if you haven't already.
Totally frustrated with Windows Live today! I've been called an MS fanboy, and probably am thanks to my preference for their "ecosystem," but after the Bing Maps fiasco and today's contact list issue, they're about ready to lose me.
I need to migrate my contacts (about 500) from one Live account to another. Until this point, I've managed my Live contacts mostly through the use of my Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live Mail (I'm not on Hotmail too much).
I've tried exporting my contacts from both Hotmail and Windows Live Mail, and tried importing into each of these. However, the fields just don't match! For example, I've put in names for the "spouse" for each of my contacts and, while they EXPORT, neither Hotmail nor WLM will IMPORT them!
Hotmail seems to have the most thorough export, but it won't even import it's entire export! WLM does an even worse job of exporting AND importing! WLM does ask me how I want to map the fields I'm importing, and matches most of them correctly, but the list of fields I can map to is incomplete, and even fields that exist in WLM don't show up in the list of mappable fields ("significant other", for example). GRRR
How can there be three distinct ways to manage a single contact database (phone, Live Mail, and Hotmail) and while they all seem to sync fine in the background, I can't export and import between them?!?
(On another note, I really don't like gMail's design, but don't like Hotmail much better. I guess I'm an old-school desktop client guy because just trying to get things done in Hotmail today really made me feel like I was using a beta! Pages weren't loading, pages were dumping me back to weird places ("Beauty of the Web?!?") and the options were tedious and counter-intuitive. I was editing a contact and couldn't for the life of me figure out where the link back to the main contact list was aside from hovering over Hotmail and clicking "Contacts" again. JUST. BAD. New features like Sweep are cool, but the design around the functionality is horrid.)
Hi, yes I know, there are myriads of ugly workarounds, "exports", plugs-n-bugs, "connectors", "Exchange" accounts, etc.
But is there a simple, dedicated application (app, whatever) that allows a non-corporate user with existing private Outlook on his PC to have his Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and at least few of latest emails in Inbox and Sent Items to sync in ONE simple step?
Not some complicated, split, multi-step process that needs constant attention, but a solution that every user can implement - most likely, a central storage for user's Outlook data. I dont mind "confidentiality" and that my Outlook data is in the "cloud", just need a simple solution.
To give one little example - even something as basic as Contacts sync, requires some abra-cadabra "connector" but even if you pass the seven gates (and must from then use a separate "Hotmail" folder for your contacts in you OWN Outlook), even then, Windows Live reject any contact with more than 1,000 charachters AND for "invalid" email addresses, which you have to hunt-for in your existing contacts...Tasks sync? Dont even mention. Mincrosoft copies even the "we tell you what you need" of Apple here.
If there is a "one-click" solution for this glaring omission, what is it and perhaps people are already working on an App? If there isnt, why not - is there some Microsoft lock-down in the Outlook or the WP7 that prevents it?
I gave up a little while ago and just switched to Windows Live Mail. Does all the things I need it to and its free.
Are you asking about this >> http://help.outlook.com/en-US/140/gg583824.aspx
asherpat said:
Hi, yes I know, there are myriads of ugly workarounds, "exports", plugs-n-bugs, "connectors", "Exchange" accounts, etc.
But is there a simple, dedicated application (app, whatever) that allows a non-corporate user with existing private Outlook on his PC to have his Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and at least few of latest emails in Inbox and Sent Items to sync in ONE simple step?
Not some complicated, split, multi-step process that needs constant attention, but a solution that every user can implement - most likely, a central storage for user's Outlook data. I dont mind "confidentiality" and that my Outlook data is in the "cloud", just need a simple solution.
To give one little example - even something as basic as Contacts sync, requires some abra-cadabra "connector" but even if you pass the seven gates (and must from then use a separate "Hotmail" folder for your contacts in you OWN Outlook), even then, Windows Live reject any contact with more than 1,000 charachters AND for "invalid" email addresses, which you have to hunt-for in your existing contacts...Tasks sync? Dont even mention. Mincrosoft copies even the "we tell you what you need" of Apple here.
If there is a "one-click" solution for this glaring omission, what is it and perhaps people are already working on an App? If there isnt, why not - is there some Microsoft lock-down in the Outlook or the WP7 that prevents it?
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Windows live would be the easier way or to connect to live and your home email at same time. The problem is home accounts such as calendar have to email or tasks to sync. Since syncing is done over the air, windows phone can access comcast's email for example. but comcast does not provide anything else. So solution would be, create a hotmail / live account to sync. You must have one anyway for windows phone. In outlook sync to same hotmail and add your other account as a 2ndary. Add the other account on windows phone also.
Problem solved. Outlook will sync calendar and contacts / tasks to windows live and your phone will retrieve it from there. For email they will be both sync both accounts.
Hope this makes sense, but it will work that way.