Guide to Migrate Lotus Notes to Office 365 In-Place Archive Mailbox

Pre-Requisites

UserID File should be NSL disabled.
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8.0 is required.
Lotus Notes 9.0.1 needs to installed and configured.
Proxy settings should not be blocking the network call.
The destination user account should have a valid license.
Log in service with MachineName\UserName having admin privilege.
Your system antivirus should not block the application by any means.
If NSF file has the password then the user must have the UserID file.
In-place archive mailbox should be enabled for the Destination user account.
The destination Microsoft O365 Admin account ID and Application Id required for authentication.
If DOAS is enabled, in that case user should compact NSF from Domino Server before adding to migration process.
Encrypted NSF we are not supporting in this case, user can replicate the existing file with no encryption option.
Project should be created on Microsoft Azure portal and Permissions Mail.ReadWrite.All, full_access_as_app should be granted on the Azure project. Read more...

Step by Step Guide to Carry Out Migration

STEP 1

Download and Launch the migration tool.

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.

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

Then, you will get this screen where you can select Source & Destination Account.

STEP 2

Select “Lotus Notes” as a source platform and “O365 Archive” as destination platform.

enter source and destination users

STEP 3

In the same screen, You can select only emails to migrate from Lotus Notes to O365 In-Place Archive under the Workload Selection.

workload screen

STEP 4

Date Filter: This option allows you to perform the date based selective migration on the mailbox data.

After making required changes, click on Next button.

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.

Source screen

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:

Source screen

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.

Source screen

STEP 7

After filling all the required details, click on Validate button.

provide details

STEP 8

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

STEP 9

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

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

destination validated

STEP 10

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 11

The list of users is displayed on the screen.

user list

You can select users based on the Priority and view the Selected Users only.

priority

STEP 12

Click on Validate to authorize Destination Permission.

Users must be assigned with In-Place archive mailbox by Office 365 admin for successful validation. If the In-Place archive mailbox is not enabled, then the validation will fail.

validate users

STEP 13

After the validation is successfully completed it will show against the Destination permissions. Click on Start Migration after that.

Validation Completed

Users can also Stop Migration if required while the migration is In Progress.

STEP 14

You can view the Migration Status in multiple formats.

List View:

List View

Tile View:

Tile View

STEP 15

After completion of migration, click on the Download Report button to generate the detailed migration report. The tool provides two options for downloading the reports:

Summary Report: The summary report will be a single .csv file containing migration reports of all the selected users for migration.
Detailed Report: Here, you get the option to save the detailed migration report of the mailboxes you want to. Select the mailbox and click on Download button.

Download report

STEP 16

Re-Run Migration option is also provided in order to perform the migration again.

Retry Failed Items: To migrated the data which didn't get migrated.
Re-Run Full Migration: To perform the entire migration process again.
Delta Migration: To migrate the newly arrived data in between the migration process

migration options

Steps for Lotus Notes to Office 365 In-Place Archive Migration

Step by Step Guide to Carry Out Migration