NSF to PST converter
In the last 5 month I got about 1000 search referrer hits with the search topic. My short answer to that question would be: Don't do it! However as the Buddha says: "You pick the level of your suffering yourself", there is a long answer too. I can understand, that people don't know where Hannover is or can/want to wait for it. Instead of "pouring out the baby with the bath", one can stick with Domino backends and use the Outlook connector for Domino to have it both ways: Outlook on the front end and Domino as reliable, cost effective and scalable infrastructure behind. Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft offer a flavour of it.
But if you have to go: There are a number of 3rd party vendors who offer migration products and services:
My personal take: Stick with Domino. Just try to get that old email backup (was it a pst?) from your Outlook/95 backup opened in Outlook 2003 or use the build in fulltext search in the Outlook client. Use the connector provided by IBM if you must have Outlook.... or wait for Hannover. upgrade to Notes 8 (You also can enjoy yourself with R7 and the OpenNTF eMail template until then).
If you want to change something for the sake of changing why not implement " Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes"?
Update:
It cuts both ways. If you came to your senses and want to move Microsoft stuff to Notes (stuff as in Outlook, Office and Sharepoint) you have plenty of help too:
But if you have to go: There are a number of 3rd party vendors who offer migration products and services:
- Kim Beros Consulting's XitNotes
- Connected Software's Address magic
- ComAxis' UniAccess
- Transend's Migrator 4.0
My personal take: Stick with Domino. Just try to get that old email backup (was it a pst?) from your Outlook/95 backup opened in Outlook 2003 or use the build in fulltext search in the Outlook client. Use the connector provided by IBM if you must have Outlook.... or
If you want to change something for the sake of changing why not implement " Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes"?
Update:
It cuts both ways. If you came to your senses and want to move Microsoft stuff to Notes (stuff as in Outlook, Office and Sharepoint) you have plenty of help too:
- PSD conversion comes with the standard Notes client
- LavaTech's Transend Migrator 6.1
- Casahl provides tools to migrate your Sharepoint content to Notes and/or Quickr
- Novell provides a plug-in to convert MS-Office to OpenOffice formats
- CMT for Lotus Notes from BinaryTree
- Aavanor does the job for you
Posted by Stephan H Wissel on 04 October 2005 | Comments (9) | categories: IBM Notes Lotus Notes