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How To Migrate Lotus Notes To Outlook 2016 With Ease?

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Jamie Kaler
How To Migrate Lotus Notes To Outlook 2016 With Ease?

Due to various possible reasons; user feels the utter requirement for switching from IBM® Lotus Notes onto other emailing clients. There are several options available which makes it tough for users to decide the right one. Amongst all those Email clients, MS® Outlook is one of the highly used. This is why Lotus Notes to Outlook is most sought after email migration query. The question arises here is how to migrate Lotus Notes to Outlook 2016.  For such sort of queries, you may try using manual migration solution which is tough to use. As an alternate solution, you can opt for professional application. There are many applications available for fulfilling such a requirement but you need to make a right choice.

Manual Lotus Notes to Outlook 2016 Migration Process

Manual method is divided into two methods:

Export Notes NSF files and Import the exported Notes NSF file into Outlook 2016

First method: Export Lotus Notes NSF Files

  1. First of all open IBM Lotus Notes app
  2. Then open Window, NSF file which you want to export. Press ‘Open’
  3. Go to ‘Menu’. Press ‘File’, select ‘Export’
  4. You will find Export Wizard. Browse the location in which you wanted to save the new file
  5. After location is defined, press drop down arrow in Save. You can choose Comma Separated Value or CSV format and define the amount of data to be exported. Lastly press ‘OK’

Second method: Import the exported Notes NSF file into Outlook 2016

  1. Start Outlook 2016 or any version that you use
  2. Then click File tab. Select Import and Export option
  3. Go to Import and Export Wizard and press Import from other program or else move to File >> Next
  4. Import a file wizard will appear. Then press Comma Separated Values (Windows) option and press ‘Next’
  5. Select the file you want to import in Outlook. Then browse for selecting the file. Press ‘Next’
  6. Select the location in mailbox for importing CSV file. Press ‘Next’
  7. Press ‘Click’ when it is to end import NSF into PST mailbox folder

Troubles associated with manual method:

  1. The manual migration method is extremely tough because many steps are involved. In case you leave any step in between, it may cause severe problems.
  2. Manual migration method is long thus consumes lots of time
  3. If you are not well-versed with technical skills then it may pose technical issues such as loss of data
  4. It you have to migrate multiple mailboxes from different account then this process is a bit shaky.

How to migrate Lotus Notes to Outlook 2016? Easiest Possible Method!

For exporting NSF files into MS Outlook 2016 it is best to save the Lotus Notes data file into PST file format. For doing this, connect with NSF to PST Converter. It is simple yet easy to use tool to save multiple NSF files into PST format keeping the folder hierarchy intact. It can help you export complete data from Lotus Notes to Outlook 2016 without any loss. It can migrate any size of NSF file and help you open it within MS Outlook 2016.

Though there are manual solutions available but still are not workable because of many complications. To avoid troubles with the manual solution, make sure for using NSF files into PST files conversion wizard. Automated commercial applications are easy to avail via online.

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