Migrate Contacts From Lotus Notes to Outlook Exchange Server 5.5 or Exchange 2000

With the advancement of technology, the ways of managing data has changed and so are the needs. Migration from Lotus Note to Outlook and vice-versa is quite common these days. Users keep on migrating for better communication medium among employees. Lotus Notes and MS Outlook, both are widely used email client in almost every organization. Each of them has their own advantages and disadvantages. Many organizations prefer to switch to Outlook from Lotus Notes. Few of the basic reasons, which are compelling people to switch, are as follows:

High training cost
High cost of the software
High maintenance cost
Users unfamiliar with Lotus Notes

The process of switching from one email client to another is a tedious task and hence a proper planning is required before switching. There are several aspects, which have to be kept in mind before switching. If you are migrating from Notes to Outlook Exchange Server 5.5 or Exchange 2000, you may also want to migrate the personal contacts of Lotus Notes users along with other mails and required content. Migration Wizard (Migwiz.exe) is the handy solution to migrate mails and other required data from Lotus Notes. It is installed with Outlook Exchange Server 5.5 and Exchange 2000 and is readily available for use. However, it cannot be used to migrate the personal contacts from the Lotus client computer. This is due to the reason that the personal contacts are stored in the client's Personal Name and Address Book file (which is typically named Names.nsf). nsf file is stored locally on the Notes client.

The Personal Name and Address Book file of the Notes client is similar to the Personal Address Book (.pab) files in Microsoft Outlook used to store contacts locally. Yet, you can perform Notes to Outlook conversion by using comma separated values (.csv) files to export and import the Personal Names and Address Book file. Although, using.csv files to migrate contacts is an easy solution, but this method very time consuming. The idea is not feasible especially when you want to migrate dat in short notice of time. Certainly, you need to have a handy solution that can convert Notes to Outlook in shortest possible time. Using third-party migration tool is therefore a suitable way. For successful Notes to Outlook conversion, you can use a third-party product called Kernel for Lotus to Outlook conversion tool.

With practically feasible features, this well-designed software ensures successful Lotus Notes to Outlook conversion in minimal time consumption. Does not matter whether you want to migrate mails or contacts, you can migrate entire data from Notes to Outlook Exchange Server 5.5 or Exchange 2000. Using quick and reliable conversion algorithm, this software simplifies the method of switching from Notes to Outlook. You can convert unlimited.NSF file(s) to.PST file(s) or exchange server. In other case, it also allows you to directly convert Domino user mailboxes to new account in Exchange Server or.PST. Kernel for Lotus to Outlook conversion tool simplifies the way data are migrated from Notes to Outlook Exchange Server 5.5 or Exchange 2000.

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How OST Files Can Help in Successful Exchange Data Recovery

If an offline folder file or OST file becomes damaged or corrupt, you could hope to recover all the data by creating a new OST file from the original mailbox stored on the Microsoft Exchange Server. Recovering data from an Offline folder file, if an Exchange server becomes corrupted, on the other hand, is fairly challenging. We will look at how one can simplify this process, especially by using third-party tools.

Most Outlook users with email accounts on a Microsoft Exchange Server believe that the data in their accounts are safe as the system administrator usually has a backup and recovery mechanism in place. However, it is not unusual to find that there have been situations wherein the Exchange server has become corrupted or backups have been found to be damaged and the only source to carry out an Exchange recovery has been the offline folder file or OST file. However, trying to recover all the Exchange data from these OST files is not straightforward and it can be fairly challenging to recover all the data in the same structure as they were in the original mailbox. Fortunately, there are now fairly sophisticated tools that allow you to carry out this process very easily.

Advanced Exchange Recovery is a third-party tool that specializes in recovering data from orphaned OST files. When Microsoft Exchange Server becomes corrupted, the mailbox on the server is also lost leaving behind an orphaned OST file. There is almost no way that an orphaned OST file can be accessed easily. Therefore, the first step in carrying out an Exchange recovery is recovering the data from an orphaned OST file.

Advanced Exchange Recovery supports integration with Windows Explorer. You can thus very easily find and select the OST file that you would like to repair. With just a click of the 'Repair' button, you can start the restoration process on a large number of files. This tool works across many formats of Exchange, leaving you with one less thing to worry about. Finally, Advanced Exchange Recovery can recover almost every type of Exchange item including all email messages, appointments and reminders, meeting requests, contacts, task items, notes and so on. In fact, it can even recover attachments and embedded objects along with the items that they are associated with.

It is always difficult to carry out an Exchange Recovery from large OST files because of their size. But, Advanced Exchange Recovery can actually recover data from very large Offline folder files - as large as 16 million TB! To top it all, this tool will save all the recovered items in a personal folder file or PST file that is also compatible across all formats from Outlook 97 to Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2010.

Advanced Exchange Recovery requires that Microsoft Outlook be installed on the computer where the OST files are located and this obviously means that it should not be installed on the Exchange server. Install a copy of Advanced Exchange Recovery on a desktop computer that is not being used as a server, copy as many Offline folder files as you can to this local machine and then run the tool to restore data from the orphaned Offline folder files into PST files. Since Outlook can easily access PST files, you have now ensured that all the data from the original mailbox is now available in Outlook and you can just copy all this data into the new mailboxes on the Exchange Server.

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Resolving "Access to Source Database Failed With Jet Error" in Exchange Server

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Microsoft Exchange Server is a reliable and advanced solution to create a collaborative and messaging environment. It stores all the user mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange database (EDB file), which can be accessed using Microsoft Outlook Email client. You should regularly backup EDB file to prevent any sort of data loss situations, if database is damaged. However, under some circumstances, Exchange Database Server can not be accessed after restoring from a backup. The database restores properly, but you encounter errors while trying to access it. This behavior leads to critical data loss and needs Exchange Server Recovery to be sorted out.

For instance, you may come across any of the following behaviors after restoring the Exchange Server database from current backup:

1. You manage to restore the EDB file, but it single. There is no catalog data or transaction log file.

2. The Eseutil /p utility runs successfully on corrupt database, but it cannot be accessed.

3. You cannot check the state of your Exchange Server database using Eseutil /mh utility.

4. You get the following errors while checking the state of restored database:

a) Initiating FILE DUMP mode...

Error: Access to source database 'c:mailbox database.edb' failed with Jet error -1022.

b) Operation terminated with error -1022 (JET_errDiskIO, Disk IO error) after 0.203 seconds.

When this behavior occurs, Exchange Server database becomes totally unusable and inaccessible. You encounter same behavior every time you try to open the database. In order to gain access of your valuable data, you need to figure out the root of this issue and perform Microsoft Exchange recovery by fixing it.

Cause

This behavior occurs due to missing log files or corrupt backup file. In both the cases, Exchange Server cannot access the source database and you face this issue.

Resolution

You can try resolving this problem using Eseutil /p command line tool or by restoring the database again from backup. If possible, move unaffected files from problem database to new database.

If the above method does not work, you need to repair and restore corrupt Exchange Server database using advanced and powerful third-party applications, known as Exchange recovery software.

The Exchange Recovery tool is competent enough to systematically scan whole database and extract all inaccessible data from it. They come equipped with rich and interactive user interface to offer easy edb recovery from corrupted or damaged Exchange Server.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the most efficient solution to effectively handle all sorts of database corruption issues. It works well with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, 2003, 2002, and 5.5. The Exchange Mailbox Recovery software successfully restores all EDB file objects, such as emails, notes, contacts, tasks, journal, attachments, and appointments.

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