Finding Your Way Around Lotus Notes
How to identify and find your Lotus Notes mailbox, address book, archive and id files for copying
If you want to make a copy of your Lotus Notes data to another PC to convert NSF to PST, backup or archive your data you need to be able to identify where all of that data is and which files it is stored in. You also need to understand a bit about the way Lotus Notes stores its configuration information as it can vary from version to version and from install to install. You should check for encryption and copy your id file.
Your data files are Lotus Notes databases
Lotus Notes data is stored in database files which are NSF files (files usually ending in an .nsf extension). Lotus Notes configuration can be stored in many places and files (such a notes.ini and in the registry). Your mailbox, address book and archives are all Lotus Notes databases (NSF files). Click Here To Read More
Transferring Lotus Notes to Outlook
How do you transfer Lotus Notes to Outlook where only one PC has Lotus Notes installed and the other only Outlook?
As a prerequisite you must have NSF to PST conversion software. That is Lotus Notes to Outlook conversion software that is able to convert NSF to PST files (Lotus Notes databases to Outlook Personal Folder Files).
Applications that read or write to IBM Lotus Notes data must have the Lotus Notes client installed so your NSF to PST software will also require Lotus Notes to be installed.
Lotus Notes is a proprietary and complex format that is constantly changing. There are no readers or viewers available from anyone to read Lotus Notes. IBM does however allow it to be read via a Lotus Notes API that comes with the Lotus Notes client. In other words you must at least have the Lotus Notes client installed to be able to read it.
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A Logical Approach to Notes Migration
Over the years, the majority of development associated with Lotus Notes was all about building fancy forms and views; the amount of developers writing complex LotusScript or Java agents was quite minimal. Because of this, most simple data validation, background document processing and button event scripting was achieved with canned actions and Notes formulas. In fact, about 75 to 85 per cent of Notes and Domino applications fall into this category and, as such, the process of converting NSF to PST for this portion is relatively easy. Here are the five steps you can take when migrating this portion. Bear in mind that, when it comes to the remaining 15 to 25 per cent of highly complex applications, these steps will not suffice.
1. Inventory and sponsor
4 Ways to Generate Documents for Data Migration
When converting NSF to PST, there are many options available. There are also many ways to migrate file attachments to a SharePoint library. These include standard lists migration, custom lists migration, document libraries migration, wiki pages migration, web part pages migration and publishing pages migration. However, as well as migrating file attachments to a SharePoint library, you may wish to create new binary files for your library. In this article, we’ll discuss four options you have for migrating certain document types in this regard.
1. Migrating documents by converting to Microsoft Word
If document creation in your workplace has been standardised around Microsoft Office, then using Microsoft Word for your document migration is an excellent choice. Since they’re both created by the same company, Office and SharePoint have the advantage of seamless integration, something that cannot be offered ordinarily. Some of the tasks that can be performed by users include opening documents from libraries, editing them and saving them all over again.
Migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Sharepoint
You may have seen our previous article, which walks you through the steps for migrating the relatively straightforward 75 to 85 per cent of Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft server. However, there is a minority of applications — around 15 to 25 per cent — which fall into the “highly complex” category and which are not so simple to migrate. To complicate matters further, these applications are often the most crucial for the ongoing success of your organisation. In this article, we’ll provide a few hints for the more difficult parts when you want to convert Lotus Notes applications.
The disadvantage of using Microsoft’s tools
What is Data Conversion?
Put simply, data conversion involves changing data from one physical environment format to another. Around the world — and particularly in the business world — data is shared from one computer to another. However, the hardware and software platforms that host this data aren’t always the same and, as such, pieces of data from one physical environment will not necessarily be compatible with the new environment. When this happens, data conversion is needed. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at data conversion, and we’ll also discuss some of the different types of data conversion, from converting music files to converting NSF to PST.
The simplest example of data conversion
The most basic data conversion example would involve converting a text file from one type of character encoding to the next. This example is simple because the characters are directly interchangeable; once the computer “cracks” the code, it’s simply a case of making the translation. Computers can be easily programmed to achieve this task.
10 Ways to Migrate Notes to SharePoint
When migrating from Lotus Notes to SharePoint there are many different paths you can take. It’s important that you get this process right, as any errors in migration can be highly disruptive and costly to your business. In this article, we list 10 ways to migrate your Lotus Notes applications to Microsoft SharePoint.
1. Standard Lists Migration
When SharePoint was designed it came with many templates that were designed to perform the same job as a large number of Lotus Notes’ most frequently used standard application templates. These include discussion databases, task lists, calendars, contact lists and more. While the interfaces are known to differ slightly, the basic functionality remains much the same.
2. Custom Lists Migration
The Top 10 Email Clients
Electronic mail — more commonly known as email — has been around since before the internet and, in fact, was one of the major reasons for the internet’s growth. Now that we’re in the 21st century, email is as relevant as ever. In this article, we’ll take a look at 10 of the biggest email clients, from Lotus to Outlook and webmail services such as Hotmail and Gmail.
Microsoft Outlook
The email client with the biggest market share is Outlook, which has been around since the 1990s and has become firmly entrenched in the business world due to the popularity of Microsoft Windows machines and its inclusion in the Microsoft Office application suite. Outlook is capable of handling email as well as calendar, tasks, contacts and more.
Hotmail
The most popular of the free web-based email services with around 364 million users worldwide, Hotmail offers its users unlimited storage and integration with other MSN products, including Windows Live Messenger. Hotmail was the first web-based email service, and its name is a reference to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the encoding language used on the Web.
4 Considerations When Migrating Notes to Office 365
When migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Office 365, it’s important to remember that it’s far from a simple process. Transferring your files to the cloud takes a great deal of planning, as well as the correct tools for the job. After all, if the migration doesn’t go smoothly, this can turn into long periods of downtime for your organisation which can have detrimental effects on business — not to mention the costs associated with data loss and the IT man hours spent sorting out the problems. In this article, we’ll take a look at a few considerations for migrating Lotus Notes to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Office 365 applications.
When migrating email, calendars and tasks, address books, Active Directory content and other features to Office 365, as well as any legacy applications, one should pay special attention to some of the available options. A few of the most important considerations are:
1. Active Directory
The Active Directory synchronisation offered by Microsoft operates from an on-premises location to the cloud. However, this is not the case vice versa. Should a company wish to keep both a cloud-based and on-premises AD system, any updates that are completed in the cloud shall be written over by the local sync process.
6 Best Practices for Migrating Domino to Exchange 2010
When an organisation makes a decision to convert NSF to PST — that is, to migrate from Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange — there are many best practices to keep in mind. In this article, we’ll take a look at six of these best practices, from understanding the difference between Notes and Outlook to paying attention to the issue of replication.
1. Understand the difference between Lotus Notes and Outlook
The simple fact is that Notes (the client) and Domino (the server) possess more features and are capable of a great deal more than Outlook and Exchange (again, the client and server respectively). Notes, for example, is capable of presenting mail with active content, while Outlook is not. Additionally, Domino can host many applications that Exchange cannot. As such, you might find that it’s a good idea to keep Lotus Notes available to ensure you have continued access to your current applications and active mail.
2. Run test migrations
