"This task could not be updated at this time" Error in Outlook 2010 on Workflow Form

Hi,
I have setup a workflow to send task notifications to users and am getting an error when attempting to act on the InfoPath based workflow task form that appears in Outlook 2010 when clicking on the "Edit this task" button. After clicking Approve, the
form disappears, but after a few seconds a dialog box appears that says:
"This task could not be updated at this time"
The funny thing is that the task actually does get updated, but there is often a delay in doing so. Does this warning appear because the server has a backup of workflow items to deal with? I saw that in 2007 it meant something wasn't properly
installed with InfoPath, but I am not sure if that is the case here or not. Any guidance would be appreciated.
I am using Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010.

I have the same issue. If I had to guess it's because the workflow in question goes stale and has to recompile, thus it times out on the client even thou it gets submitted to the server so it eventually processes.
Now either they need a longer time out fix, or we need some way to keep the workflow actively in memory somehow on our end for it to not do it. Preferably the longer timeout method would be best to save on ram, but I bet in bigger environments or workflows
that get used often this won't be the issue.
You can pretty much reproduce this if you have 2 tasks from the same workflow, the first one will give the error. then after that if you wait a minute for the workflow to get going, then close your 2nd task, it will be instant. So it's something with the
way it's getting garbage collected and having to recompile that's causing this delay with the client and a timeout just needs extended or something to give the server a chance to finish loading up the workflow.
Also there is a good article explaining reasons and solutions:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2271.aspx
Best Regards,
Megren|Blog

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