Migrating from Lotus Notes to Exchange

Hello Markus,

Please have a look on the below Article which will explains you How to migrate Enterprise Vault users from Domino to Exchange

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH64767

Migrating users from Domino to Exchange is a multi-tiered process. There are six steps that need to be performed:

1. Prepare Exchange for Enterprise Vault
2. Disable Domino mailbox archiving for users to be migrated
3. Migrate the user's mailbox from Domino to Exchange
4. Install the Outlook add-in
5. Migrate shortcuts from Domino to Exchange
6. Enable Exchange mailbox archiving

And Step 5 Answeres your Question.

5. Migrate shortcuts from Domino to Exchange
Use EVDominoExchangeMigration.exe (located in the Enterprise Vault installation directory) to migrated Domino shortcuts to Exchange MAPI shortcuts. This has to be run for each mailbox.

I Hope this Helps !!!

A_J

Do have any doubts ???

Hello A_J,

yes, I know this article, but this did not answer my question. This described procedure take care that my archive Notes Shortcuts will also work in my Exchange Mailbox. But this was not my question !

My question is "what´s about the Lotus Notes Mail Adresses into the archived items" ?

Which means when I open an archived Item in Exchange (Outlook) and press "replay to all" I will have Lotus Notes Adresses into the "to"-field of the new mail (This are not SMTP-Adresses).

And if I try to send this mail I will get undeliverable mails because Exchange does not know these Notes Adresses.

I need a solution for converting the Lotus Notes Adresses to valid Exchange SMTP-Adressses during the migration process, taking care that archived Lotus Notes mails could be replayed in the new Exchange environment.

Best Regards

Markus

Hi Markus,

I concur with Massimo. I have been through these migrations over the last 7 years and have not heard of this issue. It is possible that something is not coming across with the migration. I expect this would effect non-archived items as well.

From your original post:

"For my understanding the archived notes items could not used for reply, because these items have notes addresses."

      -Markus

Is this an issue you are currently experiencing? Just trying to figure out where you understanding of the issue is coming from.

If you need please feel free to open up a support case regarding this issue as some inspection of the shortcuts in question would likely be needed.

Thanks,

jim

Hello Massimo and Jim,

Thanks for your clarification, I have no experiance with this Notes to Exchange archives, and I did not know that these script also converts the Adresses to SMTP-addresses. This will help me much and this help me to solve my concerns.

Many Thanks for your help !

Best Regards

Markus 

Happy to help :-)

Hello Jim,

no this not an issue I actually have, these are only my concerns before we start with the data migration ;-)

I searched about these migration scenario, and I could not found something about these adresses into the archives. I thougt it must be Notes Addresse because it comes from Notes. But as described from you and Massimo it seems to be SMTP Adresses which is really good for me and the future Exchange migration.

I just did not find a written Dokument, where somebody gives a clear statement if the archived items have Notes or SMTP-Adresses.

Best Regards

Markus

Hello Markus, 

At the moment the EVDominoExchangeMigration.exe is able to convert shortcuts for data migrated with CMT Binary Tree or Quest --> 

This is from the utilities.pdf

The documentation of the migration software should explain you exactly how the SMTP-Addresses would be converted from Domino to Exchange

Regards, 

Massimo