Recover Deleted Outlook Emails from MS Outlook to Lotus Notes!

Published On October 22nd, 2024

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Category Outlook

Most of the organizations widely use Microsoft Outlook, part of the Microsoft Office suite, to manage their emails, contacts, notes, and calendar, etc. In the same way IBM provides a Lotus Notes suite for managing data. If you switch from IBN Notes platform to MS Outlook then you must look for some method that helps you in transferring personal email data and contacts etc. To facilitate this transition, you can explore solutions to import lotus notes email to Outlook efficiently.

There are two things that you can do:

Get a Third-party tool to convert PST files into NSF format.
Try Nupgrade.exe to migrate personal email data from Microsoft Outlook to IBM Notes.

Nupgrade is a Notes migration tool located in the directory of Notes clients program by default. During IBM Notes installation on the system, there is an option to install migration tools.

Before running Notes Upgrade wizard, confirm the following things:

The administrator configures MS Outlook on the workstation as Corporate or Workgroup instead of Internet Mail.
MS Outlook is configured as the default mail application on the workstation.
Outlook PST or PAB files are linked to profiles on workstation.

After confirming above thing follow given below steps:

Step 1:- Go to Command prompt and press on the Win + R button. Type cmd.exe in the open box and then hit Enter.

Step 2:- Now directly change IBM Notes client program. Type directory path where Upgrade Wizard (Nupgrade.exe) is placed and then type command Nupgrade.exe 3 to launch Upgrade Wizard.

Step 3:- Upgrade Wizard will be launched on the machine. Click on the Next button to continue.

Step 4:- Select the Outlook profile linked to the PST or PAB you want to migrate, and then click the Next button to continue.

Step 5:- Now select the upgrade method in which you need Lotus Notes Upgrade converts personal information. Select Express or Custom option and then click on the Next button to continue.

Note: Custom option of Upgrade method gives you an authentication to select items that you want to convert to IBM Notes. The Express option selects and converts all PST or PAB files linked to the selected profile into IBM Notes. The Upgrade Wizard will create an IBM Notes database in the mail folder just below Notes client data directory.

Step 7:- In the Begin Upgrade screen, click on Finish button to start the process. You need to provide your IBM Notes User ID once the process starts.

Step 8:- When Upgrade Wizard completes the conversion process, the converted PST or PAB files will appear in the folders view of the database, named XXX_PersonalFolders.nsf. Outlook contacts will appear in the Personal Address Book on the local workstation, named as Names.nsf, after conversion.

Note: If you are using Lotus Notes 6.5.3 or a later version, the migration process will place contacts that you migrated from Outlook into local Names.nsf. Instead of this contact migrate as part of XXX_PersonalFolders.nsf database. If you want to add contacts to localNames.nsf, just open XXX_PersonalFolders.nsf database by using Notes client and then choose Action and Synchronize Address Book.