Approval Action within a Deferred Task doesn't work

Question

Following is what I'm attempting to do :-
1) Set a deferred task on the user to remove certain portion of his
access on a particular date/time.
2) The deferred task when executed has an activity for "approval" from
a person after which the actual access removal happens.
What happens is that workflow execution enters the approval activity and exits without creating the approval workitem. To eliminate any
problems with the custom code for approval activity I substituted the custom deferred task with out-of-box approval activity in a simple
TaskDefinition containing only the approval with approver's accountId hard-coded etc but even then the approval activity is skipped without
creating the workitem that is to say that it proceeds to the next action without creating a workitem. If I run the same task directly via processLaunch.jsp it runs fine and creates workitem as expected. This suggests that approvals do not work inside deferred tasks. Is that true ? Has anyone created a working deferred task with an approval in it ?
Please Help !

Answer 1

Raoul,
Thank you, I've had to do that with email specifically.  I guess I'm wondering if there's a distinction between external emailing, and tasks.  Based on the MS documentation, and the ability to configure tasks for external users in the web app configuration,
I was hoping that tasks are different, but perhaps not.  I wonder if someone from MS could chime in on this?
Thank you,
Chad