When a user performs migration from Lotus Domino Server to Exchange Server 5.5 or Exchange 2000, you might wish to migrate the personal contacts of Lotus Notes users. You cannot use Migration Wizard (Migwiz.exe), installed with Exchange Server 5.5 and Exchange 2000 for migrating the personal contacts from the Lotus Notes Email client as the personal contacts are saved in the client’s Personal Name and Address Book file (that is typically named Names.nsf). This Names.nsf file is actually stored on the local Notes client. The Personal Name and Address Book file of the Notes client is similar to the Personal Address Book (.PAB) files that you used in Microsoft Outlook to store contacts locally.
A user can make use of comma separated values (CSV) files to export and import the Personal Names and Address Book file. However, Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) has tested this method and has concluded that using CSV files to migrate contacts might very monotonous and prolonged. However, to ease the entire process, you can use one of the third party convert Lotus Notes tools available online.
Using MS Outlook 2002 Connector, when you mark a recurring task that was created in the Lotus Notes R5 client as Complete, you might find that the Due Date and the body content of the base To Do Item in Lotus Notes has been modified to Due Date and body contents of the next recurring item in the series. Although, this has been confirmed to be an issue with the MS Outlook 2002 Connector but the requirement is of a potential solution that can resolve this issue easily.
When you use the Lotus Notes R5 client for creating a recurring To Do item (that is termed as Task in Outlook) while you convert Lotus Notes, a ‘base’ item is created in Lotus Notes. In addition to this, a series of items is created equal to the number of recurrences that you set for the base item. In Lotus Notes, you can modify an item in the series out of sequence. When you try to alter any item in the series in Lotus Notes, you are prompted with the following message:
You are modifying a reoccurring entry.
How would you like these changes to be applied in the related entries?
Your options are:
- Just this instance
- All Instances
- This instance and all previous instances
- This instance and all future instances
And regardless of whichever option you have selected, the base item in Lotus Notes is not altered. When you use MS Outlook 2002 Connector to access a recurring To Do item that was created in the Lotus Notes client, the item appears as a single Task in MS Outlook. In certain situations it is always helpful to Convert Lotus Notes to Outlook with a professional third party software. Kernel for Lotus Notes to Outlook is devised to convert Lotus Notes to Outlook easily and accurately.