I am working with Outlook 2013 on an Exchange Server.  Windows 7 Professional.  When I assign a Task to multiple users, the first colleague on the list receives the Task normally, but subsequent colleagues are only receiving the Task on the due date.  Very strange.  Can anyone shed light on this?  Thank you.

  

While Outlook doesn't provide a means to assign a task to multiple individuals and view its status, you can change the way you assign tasks to achieve the same result. 

For example, rather than assign a task as a single entity, break up the task, and assign individual tasks or "subtasks" to specific team members. Or, if you need to divide a task among multiple teams, divide the overall tasks into team tasks, and then send these task assignments to each team leader. The team leaders can allocate these tasks to team members. Both you and the team leader can then receive task status updates. 

• Proposed as answer by Johnpaul J Monday, March 02, 2015 12:52 PM

Hi,

As what Johnpaul J said, Outlook can track the progress of a task assigned to one person. If you want to multiple people to work on a task, its a good idea to divide the task into smaller pieces or assign each task individually.

If you need to assign the task to multiple people and want updates from all, create copies of the task and assign each copy to a different person. If you use Create Unassigned copy, you can assign the copy to someone. For more information about this, please refer to:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Assign-a-task-d12c1869-1626-4873-bae1-e451f7fafdc2

If you still have any question about Outlook Tasks, we can also ask a question in Outlook forum for more suggestion:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=outlook

Regards,

Hi,

Any updates? Has the issue been resolved?

Regards,