Office 365 Task list Integration with Outlook 2010 and Filtering

Applies to Office 365 SharePoint list and Outlook 2010.

How to Integrate and Filter an Office 365 Task list with Outlook 2010

1. Navigate to the task list you want to integrate with Outlook and click Connect to Outlook from the ribbon control.

office 365 connect to outlook

2. Click “Allow” and “Yes” consequently and finally the list will be shown in Outlook.

Now if you want to filter this list for example you want to see the task that is assigned to you or a particular name only then follow the following steps to achieve this.

Right click to the task list on Outlook and then select “View Settings…”

Office365 task list on Outlook view settings

3. Click Filter… and then From Filter window go to Advanced tab. Click Filed>Frequently-used field

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4. Now go to Advanced tab and Enter the User name that you want to filter the list. Click Ok and exit the filter windows.

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5. Now if you see the list at Outlook it will find the tasks only assigned to the user you have entered before.

filtered task list on Outlook

Hope this helps.

Microsoft Office365 – A Journey to the Cloud

What is office 365?

Office365 is a cloud-based technology service from Microsoft which includes all popular applications from this family for collaboration and communication for businesses of almost every organization. Office365 helps organization to save  time, money and less utilization of resources . office365 is accessible from any part of the globe using internet.

It helps SMB to use costly communication and collaboration solution like Sharepoint server, Exchange server from Microsoft without purchasing and deploying them into their own server. All that they need is to have an internet connection with office 365.com and a login ID.

MS Offerings

Microsoft offers Office 2010 Plus, Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online, and Lync in this cloud based solution.

Features

Office 2010 Plus and Web Apps offers the working environment  familiar with the office application  in office365.com and create and manage their document as they do in the desktop version using web browser with some real time authoring capability between multiple users. It also provide social connector for Outlook to get most of your social collaboration into lights.

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