It is quite common situation that you come across when task information is not migrated properly and completely during Lotus Notes to exchange migration. This happens when you export Lotus Notes profile user’s email messages, calendar information and task information from calendar to Exchange 2000 Server with the use of Migration Wizard for Exchange 2000. During Notes to Exchange migration, some migrated users complain that their tasks got migrated to their Outlook Tasks folders.

The reason behind this issue is that the Migration Wizard exports only the tasks that were included in Lotus Notes calendar. However, it works differently while migrating tasks for Lotus Notes. In order to resolve this issue, follow the procedure given below on the tasks for migrating calendar items.

1. Open your Notes mailbox in Notes 4.6x client

2. Change to the “To-Do” folder

3. Open the task that was not migrated

4. Now click the Display task on my calendar button. Button will then change to Remove from calendar

5. Save the task

6. Run Migration Wizard for Exchange 2000 again, the task is migrated to Exchange 2000

If you don’t get successful this way, then opt for third party tool for Notes to Exchange migration. Dealing with incomplete migration often results in loss of important data. Hence it is recommended that whenever you need to perform Notes to Exchange migration, switch to professional third party tools.

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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.

Organizations where employees are tasked to use Lotus Notes without providing apt training about this vast email client can have considerable performance impact. If employees do not have sufficient information about the software, most of their valuable time will be wasted in self-software evaluation and handling issues. And because the software is not so easy to learn, arranging a complete and thorough training session requires substantial time, expert trainers, and huge amount of money, which may not be feasible for all organizations. Moreover, the software may have compatibility issues with other software applications deployed within the organization.

Due to the specified reasons, organizations are stepping towards Exchange environment from Lotus Notes. Understanding MS Outlook is much easier than Lotus Notes due to which organizations do not need to spend a large extent of money on large training sessions. In addition, compatibility issues are very rare with MS Outlook and Exchange Server. Therefore, a considerable amount of time and money can be easily saved by migrating from Lotus Notes to Exchange. However, performing notes to Exchange migration is not an easy task. Migrating a large number of Lotus Notes mailboxes in Exchange environment is a long, time-consuming, error-prone, and tough task.

Kernel for Lotus Notes to Outlook simplifies this task by enabling you to migrate any number of Lotus Notes files to Exchange in just few minutes. The intuitive software interface guides you at every step during the process and thus makes Notes to Exchange migration much easier than native Lotus Notes to Exchange migration tool. Kernel for Lotus Notes to Outlook supports all versions of Lotus Notes ranging from 6.0 to 8.0 and MS Outlook 97 to Outlook 2007.

Lotus Notes comes with exclusive messaging features and numerous benefits. But high maintenance cost or complicated functioning or any other reason may make any organization to perform Notes to Exchange migration. However with Lotus Notes and Exchange connectors migration can be performed but these connectors help out only in case of coexistence. When an organization switch to MS Outlook and use it as only email client, Notes to Exchange migration requires an expert tool.

Kernel for Lotus Notes to Outlook is a Notes to Exchange migration tool that provide expert guidance and process for migration. The entire Notes to Exchange migration process can get accomplished in just few simple steps with this tool. With the feature to convert Domino server mailboxes, you can convert Domino server mailboxes to new account in Exchange server or PST.

This feature helps you to convert Domino user mailboxes and makes the entire process less time consuming, as with it the user can avoid one by one conversion of user accounts. So just use this exclusive feature to convert Domino user mailboxes and get the Notes to Exchange migration done quickly and precisely.