Recover Deleted Outlook Contacts from MS Outlook and Hard Drives!

Microsoft Outlook is a part of Microsoft Office suite which is used by most of organization to manage their emails, contacts, notes and calendar etc. In same way IBM provides a Lotus Notes suite for managing data. If you switch from IBN Notes platform to MS Outlook then you must looking for some method that helps you in transferring personal email data and contacts etc.

There are two things that you can do:

  • Get Third-party tool to convert PST files into NSF format.
  • Try Nupgrade.exe to migrate personal email data from Microsoft Outlook to IBM Notes.

Nupgrade is a Notes migration tool part located in the directory of Notes clients program by default. During IBM Notes installation on system, there is an option to install migration tools.

Before running Notes Upgrade wizard, confirm the following things:

  • Instead of Internet Mail only MS Outlook is configured on workstation as Corporate or Workgroup.
  • MS Outlook is configured as default mail application on workstation.
  • Outlook PST or PAB files are linked to profile on workstation.

After confirming above thing follow given below steps:

Step 1:- Go to Command prompt and press on Win + R button. Type cmd.exe in the open box and then hit Enter.

Step 2:- Now directly change IBM Notes client program. Type directory path where Upgrade Wizard (Nupgrade.exe) is placed and then type command Nupgrade.exe 3 to launch Upgrade Wizard.

Step 3:- Upgrade Wizard will be launched on machine. Click on Next button to continue.

Step 4:- Now select Outlook profile that is linked to PST or PAB which you desire to migrate and after that click on Next button to continue.

Step 5:- Now select upgrade method in which you need Lotus Notes Upgrade converts personal information. Select Express or Custom option and then click on the Next button to continue.

Note: Custom option of Upgrade method gives you an authentication to select items that you want to convert to IBM Notes. Express option selects all files of PST or PAB which are linked to selected profile and convert them to IBM Notes. The Upgrade Wizard will create IBM Notes database in mail folder just below Notes client data directory.

Step 7:- In Begin Upgrade screen, click on Finish button to start the process. Once process gets started, you need to provide IBM Notes User ID.

Step 8:- When Upgrade Wizard completed conversion process the PST or PAB files which were converted will appear in folders view of database, named as XXX_PersonalFolders.nsf. And Outlook contacts which were converted will be appear in Personal Address Book on local workstation, named as Names.nsf.

Note: If you are using Lotus Notes 6.5.3 or later version, contact that were migrated from Outlook to Notes will be placed in local Names.nsf. Instead of this contact migrate as part of XXX_PersonalFolders.nsf database. If want to add contacts to localNames.nsf, just open XXX_PersonalFolders.nsf database by using Notes client and then choose Action and Synchronize Address Book.

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