subject: Migrating Lotus Notes Contacts To Outlook 2003 [print this page] Time management is the need of hour and every organization has to incorporate only such tools that can help in achieving their goal in a time bound manner. If we talk about email communication system in any company, then we would strive to deploy a time friendly and effective hassle free email client.
People who are using Lotus Notes as their communication medium in an organization are switching to MS Outlook. Reasons are very much simple; time effectiveness and friendly interaction of Outlook with users.
Using MS Outlook connector one may not get the desired output. If you connect to IBM Lotus Domino server by using the MS Outlook connector, MS Outlook usually results in CPU usage increased up to 60- 70% processor time. As a result, overall system performance decreases considerably. Also, the interoperability option seems to be blocked. Therefore its always advisable to export notes using some proficient Notes to Outlook migration software.
You can try your hand on manually converting Lotus Notes to Outlook. If you are interested in migrating Lotus Notes contacts to Outlook, then the following steps could be helpful to you.
To migrate your Lotus Notes contacts to Outlook 2003, follow these steps:
In Lotus Notes, export your contacts to a tab-delimited file.
Start Outlook 2003.
On the File menu, click Import and Export.
Click Import from another program or file, and then click Next button.
Click Comma Separated Values (Windows), and then click Next button.
Click Browse.
In the File name box, type *.*, and then click OK.
Click the file that you created in step 1, and then click OK.
Click Next.
Click the Contacts folder, and then click Next button.
Under The following actions will be performed, confirm that the correct files are listed. Then, click Map Custom Fields to map the contact fields that you want to use.
Click Finish.
In case you want to export whole of Lotus Notes .NSF email file to MS Outlook .PST file, you can do so with easy to use and technically advanced third party Lotus Notes to Outlook conversion software. Software is efficient enough to export notes to Outlook in a safe and secure manner. Any number of Domino Server mailboxes gets converted to MS Exchange Server user mailboxes with all emails, and other email items existing. It exports emails along with Sent Items, Inbox, Drafts, Address Book, Journals, Calendar, and To Do List of Lotus Notes to MS Outlook. With export notes to Outlook software, one is assured of secure and accurate migration with email properties like to, bcc, cc, from, date/time of migrated emails accurately and completely exported. So why not export all email items from Lotus Notes to Outlook, when diligent migration tool is available.
