Managing a SharePoint task list in Outlook 2010

Outlook 2010 provides a great location to view and manage your tasks. By connecting your SharePoint tasks lists to Outlook, you can track all the things that you need to do in one place.

Getting ready

This recipe works for:

• SharePoint 2010 Foundation

• SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition

• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition

• Office 365 (SharePoint Online)

You will need the Contribute permission level to edit tasks in Outlook 2010 and have those changes synchronized back to SharePoint 2010. This normally means that you will be a member of the site member's group.

You will need the Reader permission level if you want to synchronize tasks (read-only) to Outlook 2010. You will be able to change the tasks but those changes will not be saved back to SharePoint 2010.

You will need a SharePoint 2010 Team Site or any other SharePoint site to which a tasks list has been added.

You will need Outlook 2010 installed on your client machine.

How to do it...

1. Open your Team Site...