Guide to Migrate Lotus Notes to Office 365 Account

Pre-Requisites

Destination User(s) should be already created at destination Admin account.
SysTools Customer Management domain should be whitelisted in users network firewall.
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 4.8.0 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.

STEP 6

You will need to put NSF files in the specific pattern as shown below:

Create a folder in disk 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".

The “D:/NSF Files/” folder must contain the NSF files of all the respective users with a NSFUserMapping.csv file as shown below:

provide details

Important Note: Ensure that the Source ID in the NSFUserMapping.csv file and the Folder Name must be same respectively. And CN Value Address must follow the syntax shown in the image. Users can not be validated if there is any mismatch in both the names.

provide details

STEP 7

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

STEP 8

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 9

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

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

users

STEP 10

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 11

Enter the Destination Email of the respective Source Email and Click on Validate to authorize selected user source and Destination Permission.

validate users