Microsoft Outlook is a popular email client and number of users across the world switch to MS Outlook from Lotus Notes. When you connect to IBM Lotus Domino R5 server by using the MS Outlook 2002 connector, MS Outlook might result in CPU usage to increase up to 60- 70% processor time. As a result, overall computer performance might decrease considerably. Also, the interoperability option seems to have stuck up. This might happen if the mailbox on IBM Lotus Domino server contains innumerable folders.

Similar is the case, when you try migrating Lotus Notes user’s email messages calendar information and tasks to Exchange 2000 Server by using the Migration Wizard for Exchange 2000. This time some migrated users might experience that not all of their tasks have been imported to their Outlook Tasks folder. Here, the Migration Wizard does not migrate the task information from Lotus Notes to Exchange within the wizard steps. It sends an email to the migrated user with an attachment (Notes_us.sc2). After this the user needs to use MS Outlook to import the .sc2 file. The .sc2 file includes Task and Calendar information.

Aren’t all these things quite time-consuming and technically tough for a non-technical user? Yes, it is but Migrating from Lotus Notes to Outlook can be time-efficient too. Using a third party migration tool is always a better option for migrating from Lotus Notes to Outlook. You don’t have to worry about anything in particular, simply continue with the process and everything will be transported without any loss of vital data. Basically, third party migration tools are specially devised with advanced algorithms to perform the migration task with a lot more ease and comfort.

At times, when you convert files from Lotus Organizer 6.0 or higher, the format that you are using for exporting data from Organizer and importing data into Outlook may vary as per the data type that you wish to convert. Issues like this need to be handled carefully during the manual Lotus Notes to Outlook conversion. But with Lotus Notes to Outlook migration tool, anyone can perform migration and what more the time consumed is just the half of time taken during the manual conversion. As an administrator, you don’t have to convert the data of user mailboxes one-by-one; start migrating ‘n’ number of mailboxes in one go. This way you can easily migrate from Lotus Notes to Outlook with ease.