How to Migrate Lotus Notes to Office 365

Summary: Are you in search of an effective and better strategy to run the process to migrate Lotus Notes to Office 365? This blog will take you through the solution that helps you in the migration of the complete data of the Lotus Notes mailboxes into Office 365.

Lotus Notes is an email client that has dominated the email client market in recent times and is most adopted by large-scale enterprises. If, in technical terms, we talk about Lotus Notes, it saves the user data in the NSF file format. However, in some ways, most users face difficulty managing the data and have other concerns. After the introduction of Office 365, many of the Lotus Notes users started migrating themselves into Office 365.

There are multiple other reasons that create the requirement to migrate Lotus Notes to Office 365 , which this blog will also discuss. Here, users will learn about some of the most reliable ways of migration, along with manual migration methods.

Why does the user Choose Office 365 over Lotus Notes?

Every email client has their merits and demerits, and on the basis of that, the user decides to opt for anyone from them. In order to manage the emails effectively, so many users look for Lotus Notes to Office 365 migration. If you are wondering about the migration, then given below are some of the reasons mentioned:-

• Using Lotus Notes to manage the data requires resources and is a time-consuming task, whereas Office 365 allows users to store their data on the cloud, allowing them to manage the data easily and at any time.
• Office 365 provides a wide range of subscription plan that suits every kind of organization, starting from small-scale to large-scale enterprises.
• Office 365 is easier to adapt as compared to Lotus Notes because of the user interface.
• There is limited scope for downtime as Microsoft automatically upgrades.
• Office 365 offers more security as the user's data gets stored on the cloud, which NSF can’t provide that much security to the Lotus Notes user's data.

Solutions to Make the Migration of Lotus Notes into Office 365 Mailboxes

There are ways through which users can easily migrate Office 365 to Lotus Notes. The first solution we will talk about is the manual methods, and the other solution we will talk about is the third-party utility. We will cover both methods one by one, but let’s first start with the manual methods.

Monti Migration Guide

MONTI is the guide available on the website of Microsoft which allows the migration of Lotus Notes to Office 365 accounts. Here, we will tell you exactly how you can use this migration solution to complete the task. The process to use this migration guide has been listed below:-

• Download the migration guide (Monti.exe) from Microsoft's website.
• Open the Monti.exe on your system, which will be in the RAR file.
• Extract the data from the rar file.
• Open the migration guide, which consists of 84 pages.

Follow each process shared in the migration guide to complete the task.

Migration using IMAP Connector

In this method, users need to follow the 3 phases of the Lotus Notes to Office 365 migration, and to know them, check them out below:-

In the first phase of the migration, the user needs to back up the complete data.

Second, the user needs to create a mailbox for every new user in Office 365.

Now, you need to enable the IMAP TCP/IP port. Follow the below-mentioned steps shared:-

• You need to go to the Domino Admin after logging into the Lotus Notes.
• Click on the Administration, and choose the Configuration.

• In the configuration tab, a new window will appear. On the left side, click on the All Server Documents option.

• Go to the Ports, then Internet Ports and in the last click on Mails.

• Now, you just need to enable the TCP/IP Ports.

The last step in this migration method is to create the synchronization between Microsoft Office 365 and Lotus Notes using the IMAP Connector.?

Third-Party Software for Lotus Notes to Office 365 Migration

We have tried the manual methods to migrate Lotus Notes to Office 365, but somehow, all of them fail to provide timely results. Also, there are several risks associated with them, so it’s better to go with a professional migration solution like the Weeom Lotus Notes to Office 365 migration software.

The software allows the migration of multiple Lotus Notes mailboxes without damaging the original folder hierarchy. Mapping of the mailboxes is also possible with this tool; users just need to select the mailboxes from the source and the target.

Wrapping Up

This article helps you migrate Lotus Notes to Office 365 by using several methods, as discussed above. However, the manual method explained is lengthy, and users might face difficulty using it. Such method only helps to migrate one mailbox at a time. We have also concentrated on third-party software that allows the simultaneous migration of several mailboxes. Users can also use their migration scheduling option to run migration at differing timings. Moreover, users can research and test their functioning by using the free version of the tool.