Migrating Lotus Notes contacts to Outlook 2003

<p>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.</p>

<p>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. </p>

<p>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 it&rsquo;s always advisable to <A HREF="http://www.exportnotes.biz/" title="export notes"><strong>export notes</strong></A> using some proficient Notes to Outlook migration software.</p>

<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">You can try your hand on manually converting </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">Lotus Notes to Outlook. If you are interested in migrating Lotus Notes contacts to Outlook, then the following steps could be helpful to you.</SPAN></p>

<p LANG="en-US">To migrate your Lotus Notes contacts to Outlook 2003, follow these steps: </p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">In Lotus Notes, export your con</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">tacts to a tab-delimited file.</SPAN></p>

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<p LANG="en-US">Start Outlook 2003. </p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">On the </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>File</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"> menu, click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Import and Export</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">. </SPAN> </p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">Click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Import from another program or file</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">, and then click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Next</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"> button.</SPAN></p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">Click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Comma Separated Values (Windows)</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">, and then click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Next</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"> button.</SPAN></p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">Click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Browse</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">. </SPAN> </p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">In the </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>File name</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"> box, type </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>*.*</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">, and then click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>OK</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">. </SPAN> </p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">Click the file that you created in step 1, and then click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>OK</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">. </SPAN> </p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">Click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Next</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">. </SPAN> </p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">Click the </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Contacts</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"> folder, and then click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Next</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"> button.</SPAN></p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">Under </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>The following actions will be performed</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">, confirm that the correct files are listed. Then, click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Map Custom Fields</strong></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"> to map the contact fields that you want to use.</SPAN></p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">Click </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Finish.</strong></SPAN></p>

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<p><SPAN LANG="en-US">In case you want to export whole of Lotus Notes .NSF email file to MS Outlook .PST file, you can do so with </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">easy to use and technically advanced third party Lotus Notes to Outlook conversion software. Software is efficient enough to </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.exportnotes.biz/" title="export notes"><strong>export notes</strong></A><SPAN LANG="en-US"> 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. </SPAN>It exports emails along with Sent Items, Inbox, Drafts, Address Book, Journals, Calendar, and To Do List of Lotus Notes to MS Outlook. With <A HREF="http://www.exportnotes.biz/" title="export notes"><strong>export notes</strong></A> 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.</p>