If the answer to that question is obvious, I'm really sorry. I'm working with a team and we've opted to utilize Microsoft Office Live Workspace. My question is, how can I assign a task via Office Live Workspace? I see the option to add a task, but I'm not sure where to get that functionality to "assign" a task and have it sync properly with Outlook so that the user recieved a user notification via email.

I'm not sure of that's making any sense. Ideally, I'd like to be able to assign these tasks to my fellow co-workers...(and all those contacts are in my Outlook *and* are currently editors of the relevant workspace), yet I don't see the column I'm to use in Microsoft Office Live Workspace nor do I see it "sync" when hitting the 'connect to Outlook' functionality.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  

 On a semi-related note, I would like to also have alerts sent to the team members when there are changes. While I undestand you don't want to overburden folks w/alerts, that sort of functionality is really nice, as seen in Basecamp.