Lotus Notes and Outlook are the most commonly used email clients in organizations that synchronize with Domino Server and Exchange Server respectively to establish email communication. Both of these email clients are feature rich. However, besides that you may need to switch from Domino Server of Lotus Notes to Outlook’s Exchange Server.

One of the scenario in which you have to switch from Lotus Notes to Exchange can be – you have been transferred to another branch of your organization and you want to bring all email messages with you because they are very important and you may anytime need one or more out of those email messages. But, the problem is that at new location you are provided with MS Outlook instead of Lotus Notes. Therefore, you cannot directly access your email messages because they are in unsupportable Outlook format. To access email messages with Outlook, you first have to convert them into Outlook supportable format that is from .nsf to .pst format. For this purpose, you can use Exchange Migration wizard. However, the Exchange Migration wizard sometimes stops the migration process in between and puts you in a dreadful situation.

Actually when you try migrating email messages from Lotus Notes environment to Exchange environment then Notes.pkl and Directory.pri files are created successfully. But, sometimes the 00000001.pri and 00000001.sec files are not created. At that time, Exchange Migration wizard gets automatically closed leaving the migration process in between.

Reason:

The aforementioned issue often occurs when user’s account using which you are doing migration does not have sufficient rights to access Organization, Site, and Server containers in Exchange Server Administrator program.

Solution:

Abrupt closing of Exchange Migration Wizard can lead to data loss; therefore, before starting the migration process, you must ensure that you have logged in using the service account. If you log in using the service account then the mentioned issue does not occur thus, there will be no fear of data loss.

In case, you face the specified issue even after undertaking the preceding solution, you can use Kernel for Lotus Notes to Outlook, a third-party migration tool, which has been designed for easy and successful migration of email messages from Lotus Notes environment to Exchange environment. If you use Kernel for Lotus Notes to Outlook to migrate email messages from Lotus Notes to Exchange then you do not have to face panic situations that generally occur with Exchange Migration Wizard. The software supports Lotus Notes 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0, all versions of Exchange Server and MS Outlook.