Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Transferring Your Address Book From Lotus Notes To MS Outlook

Lotus Notes is a very popular software application used in offices around the globe for email communication, sharing documents, contacts and calendar management and essentially as a server-client application. And, in these aspects, this application is very similar to MS Outlook. So, it makes sense when some users want to transfer some of their files from Lotus Notes to MS Outlook.

However, there is no need for testing OmniTech Support help line for this purpose. You can use the Import and Export options in these two applications for transferring the files without any external help.

Migrating your Lotus Notes address book to Outlook

File transferring options are available in both these email and contact management applications. You just have to make sure that you are creating the transfer file in the correct format, one that is supported by both applications. You can use the Export options in Lotus Notes to create an export file in the Outlook-supported format and save it in a particular folder in the system.

Then, you can use the Import and Export wizard in Outlook to import this file to Outlook. This would normally work. However, many users testing OmniTech Support have reported that some of the data fields in each contact so transferred gets disorganised when migrated from one application to the other like this. This does not mean that such contacts become inaccessible or illegible. You just need to open them and organise the data fields in the data format that you are following in Outlook.

But, this would indeed be a cumbersome task if you are transferring all your contacts this way. Reorganising them in the proper data format would take up too much of your time. The best solution here is to use a software application designed for transferring such data from Lotus Notes to MS Outlook. There are plenty of such third party applications available online. As you transfer your files from one application to the other using such an application, the software will convert the data format correctly making sure that there are no errors in the transferred files like the ones mentioned above.

Lotus Notes stores its data in the NSF format (with .nsf extension), while Outlook stores them in the PST format. You need to use a data transfer or conversion tool that essentially converts NSF files to PST. If you run into any problems while using such a program, just contact our tech support personnel for assistance.

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