IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook are most widely used email clients by many organizations.
on the聽IBM Domino聽server and MS Outlook stores all your mailboxes and other on the聽Exchange Server聽as聽.PST file聽format.These days as Exchange Server or Office 365 by Microsoft are become more popular among users and Outlook also comes with low subscription cost and Outlook is also easy to use, so many personal users and organizations are looking to switch from Lotus Note to MS Outlook.
Here to move from IBM Notes to Outlook, you have to convert .NSF file to .PST format.
One can manually migrate from NSF file to PST file but the easiest and safest method to convert NSF to PST is using a third-party NSF to PST Converter Software.Method to convert NSF file to Outlook PSTTo convert NSF to PST file manually you need to perform to major steps:Export Lotus Notes NSF file from IBM Domino ServerImport Exported data into Microsoft Outlook.STEP 1: Export NSF file data from IBM NotesLaunch IBM Notes app and click on聽Open聽button to upload the .NSF聽file which needs to convert as PST file.Click on the聽File聽menu and choose聽Export聽option from the list.Here in the Export Wizard Window select a location on your computer to save the newly exported file and select save as type to聽Comma Separated Value聽(.CSV file) or聽Structured Text.Use an appropriate name to save the file and then click on聽Export聽button.After exportation to Comma Separated Value file or Structured Text file, two different types of the window will pop up according to your file format selection.Here select your options according to different file format window and then click聽OK聽to complete the 1ststep of NSF to PST conversion.STEP 2: Import Exported data into MS Outlook.In Microsoft Outlook program select聽Open & Export聽option from the聽File聽menu.Here聽click on聽Import/Export聽option to open聽Import and Export Wizard.Now choose聽Import from another program or file聽action to perform and click on聽Next聽button.Here to Import a file select file type as聽Comma Separated Values聽and click聽Next.Then聽Browse聽to find and select previously exported聽.csv file.
(Here you have three options to import or ignore the duplicate items:聽(i) Replace duplicates with items imported, (ii) Allow duplicates to be created and (iii) Do not import duplicate items.
)聽Choose one option according to your requirement and click聽Next.Next, select a destination folder to save all data after Import and click聽Next.After completion of Import, procedure click on聽Finish聽to finish the Import Work.After performing all these steps carefully you can successfully transfer your Lotus Notes data from .NSF file to MS Outlook.Note: Because there are chances of corruption in NSF file data during all this long procedure of migrations of NSF file data to MS Outlook, it is suggested to make a backup of your NSF file.