Your approach towards Lotus Notes and/or Microsoft Outlook

Emails are the electronic voice of the day and perhaps serve everyone immeasurably. Emails clients are the mode of communication in any organization these days. Out of the large number of available clients, Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange both have proved out to be expedient service providers. From time to time, enterprises as well as individuals get into a situation where they need to migrate among email clients. There can be various reasons behind it and the change may be temporary or permanent.

For temporary or minimal requirements, coexistence is a better idea than migration. Both IBM and Microsoft have built in support to let users access another client simultaneously. Exchange comes with several separate tools to let you to coexist with Lotus Domino. They are the Microsoft Connector for Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange Calendar Connector. On the other hand, IBM has also has Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook (DAMO). The concept behind the DAMO solution is to offer existing Microsoft Exchange/Outlook users the ability to migrate all existing Exchange data to a Domino server, then to run either the Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook client (think of it as a “Virtual Outlook” client) or the Notes client over the new Domino database. Thus such services let you devoted towards one, still virtually use another.

If you are looking for a permanent solution, then probably migration is a better solution rather than maintaining both clients. Using both can be very expensive as well as tiresome, as you always have to shuffle among clients which are basically not at all compatible. Lotus Notes use .nsf file extension to store data whereas outlook uses .pst file. In order to migrate from Notes to Outlook, one needs to convert NSF to PST. This is a crucial and hectic task but needs one time effort. But no more, as proficient email migration software programs are available to carry out the entire task on their own. You just have to locate the files and everything, including Domino server mailboxes will also be migrated to Exchange. They effectively migrate emails, notes, contacts, drafts, calendar items etc from .nsf file to .pst file while maintaining data integration.

Lotus Notes to Outlook Conversion is such a product. Convert NSF to PST quickly and this tool even converts Domino user mailboxes to new account in Exchange Server or as .PST file. The converted data can be viewed in Text or RTF format. Download free trial version and check the capabilities but it limits you to convert only one NSF file and save first ten items of every folder existing in the .nsf file. It supports version 8.0, 7.0, and 6.0 of Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino Server. Along with, it supports MS Outlook 97 and above, and every version of MS Exchange Server.

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