Hi,
>From a quick web search, a number of posts seem to provide plenty of
evidence of this problem. To recap, setting a task as completed in
Outlook does not result in it being set as completed (and subsequently
removed) from the PPC device. However, setting it as completed on the
PPC does result in the Outlook task being set to completed.
>From these same posts, the most typical "solution" to this problem is
to change the default setting from "Synchronize only incomplete tasks"
to "Synchronize all tasks". Frankly, this doesn't make much sense to
me. It seems like the natural assumption on how to interpret the former
option should be for it to read: "Synchronize all tasks, but remove
completed tasks from the PPC device". Otherwise, what would be the
point of this option? In which logical scenario would someone actually
want items marked as completed on the desktop not to sync to the PPC?
But if set completed on the device then sync it to the desktop? This
smells of a bug to me.
I've observed this problem in ActiveSync 3.8 and I'm pretty sure I saw
it in 3.7. What's more is that I'm pretty sure I've seen ActiveSync
behaving as I'd expect (following a fresh install perhaps), but then at
some point something happens and it starts misbehaving in this way.
However, I've not been able to determine what gets it started.
If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, is this a known bug? Is there
plans to fix this? It is oh so annoying.
Cheers,
Paul