Ability to channel task assignments into Outlook also gone in 2007?

[rustywill]

Hello,

Oh man, I may try to install my old Project 97! After an hour of research I pretty much know the answer but maybe there's a trick or a workaround someone knows...

In 97 you could easily send your task assignment out via email where it was picked up by Outlook, made into a task and sent to the person assigned to the task who could accept, reject, update, and mark it complete with full blown feedback back into project. It was sooooo nice. I know... gone... or buy a 3rd party project I saw... but is there anyway to hack this puppy so it remembers functionality it's distant 13 year old ancestor did so easily?

Why did I upgrade? (because 97 probably won't run on win7)

I am sorry for the bellyaching -- guess I expect newer software to do more not less.

Rusty

Rusty Williamson
Founder / Director
Virtualmedia Studios, San Diego, CA

http://www.virtualmediastudios.com

 

[PDQBach]

I believe you are correct in your assessment. (It seems that MS wanted to encourage sites to migrate to Project Server -- where equivalent functionality is provided).

I cannot confirm your assessment completely because the site where I work uses standalone MS Project and does not presently use Outlook.

I'm going to follow this thread in case someone else can provide a workaround.