How to connect SharePoint Lists (Contact and Tasks) to Outlook?

Currently Microsoft Outlook is a very important tool, that gets more attention. Very often users want get access SharePoint document libraries without visiting SharePoint (the document library). Users very often use Outlook to coordinate and colobarate activities and projects, the ability to synchronize these libraries and lists can help them become more efficient, especially if they work offline and don’t have convenient access to your SharePoint sites all the time. You can sinchronise documents library to Microsoft Outlook, contact list, a certain type of SharePoint external list with Outlook 2010. Simply drag and drop your e-mails to appropriate folders in SharePoint Outlook Integration's interface. SharePoint Outlook Integration also provides e-mail archive development for Outlook into SharePoint.

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Submitted by Irina Pershina on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 22:42
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How to connect SharePoint Lists (Contact and Tasks) to Outlook

Synchronize a SharePoint contact list with Outlook 2010 contacts

1. Navigate to the SharePoint site containing the contact list.
2. Click the name of the contact list on the Quick Launch, or click Site Actions, click View All Site Content, and then in the appropriate list section, click the name of the contact list.
3. In the ribbon, on the List tab, in the Connect & Export group, click Open in Outlook.
4. When prompted to connect the SharePoint contacts to Outlook, click OK.
In Outlook 2010, the contacts are added under Contacts in the Navigation Pane.

Synchronize a SharePoint task list with Outlook 2010 tasks

1. In your browser, navigate to the SharePoint site containing the Task list or Project task list you want to synchronize.
2. Click the name of the task or project task list on the Quick Launch, or click Site Actions, click View All Site Content, and then in the appropriate list section, click the name of the task or project list.
3. In the ribbon, on the List tab, in the Connect & Export group, click Open in Outlook.
4. When prompted to connect the SharePoint Contacts list to Outlook, click OK.

Submitted by Irina Pershina on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 22:55

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