Guide to Migrate Lotus Notes to Office 365 Account

Pre-Requisites

Destination User(s) should be already created at destination Admin account.
Create Console Project in Office 365. Read more...
If your NSF file is password protected, then the UserID is required for migration.
CN Value mapping CSV needs to be there for recipient address mapping.
If you have Encrypted NSF file, then we are not supporting, in this case user can replicate the existing file with no encryption option.
If DOAS is enable in that case user should compact NSF from Domino Server before adding to migration.
Log in service with MachineName/UserName having admin privilege.
Lotus Notes 9.0 or greater installed and configured.
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or above

Following are the Steps to Perform Lotus Notes to Office 365 Migration

STEP 1

Download and install SysTools Migrator on your system. While launching, you will be prompt to provide the Administrator id and password for authentication.

If your tool is not activated, then see the activation steps here. Activation Steps

Tool provides the help section for the details about each migration mode. Click on "Help" button to view this section.

Start screen

Then, you will get this screen where you can select Source & Destination Account to export data from Lotus Notes to Office 365.

To enable advance settings for Concurrent migration (optional). Read more: Advance Settings

STEP 2

Select “Lotus Notes” as a source platform and “Office 365” as destination platform.

enter source and destination users

STEP 3

In the same screen, select the categories that you want to migrate from Lotus Notes to Office 365 under the Workload selection.

workload screen

STEP 4

Using the Date Filter option you can perform the date based selective migration of the mailbox data. Click on Next.

STEP 5

Move to the Source Screen now. Provide the Admin Email and Lotus Notes Client Password details carefully.

After this, browse the NSF files using Source Folder Path option.

You will need to put NSF files in the folders (created with the name of target O365 email IDs) as described below:

Create a folder in root drive, like:

D:/NSF Files/[email protected]/(put all NSF files of user1)
D:/NSF Files/[email protected]/(put all NSF files of user2)
D:/NSF Files/[email protected]/(put all NSF files of user3)
etc...

And then select the folder "D:/NSF Files/" into our tool as "Source Folder Path".

provide details

STEP 6

After validating, the permissions will be granted to the source user. Click on Next.

STEP 7

Now click on Destination. Provide Admin Email and Application ID. Click on Validate for permission validation. Hit the Next button.

See how to create project for Office 365. Office 365 Project Settings

STEP 8

On the Users screen, there are several ways in which you can add users from the source account that needs to be processed.

users

Fetch Users: This option will fetch all the NSF files available in the selected location in Source tab.

Import Users: This will import users through CSV.

Download Template: In this option, you will get a sample CSV file in which you can add source and destination users manually.

STEP 9

The list of users is now, displayed on the screen.

You can select users by setting Priority wherein the prioritized mailboxes will be migrated first. One can set the priority by marking the desired source email.

STEP 10

Click on Validate to authorize selected user source and destination resources.

validate users