IBM Notes and Microsoft Outlook both are popular desktop-based PIM (Personal Information Managers) and Email clients. They allow users to manage contacts, emails, calendars, tasks, notes and so on. At times, there is a need to get Lotus Notes calendar entries into Microsoft Outlook. However, viewing IBM Notes calendar entries directly in an Outlook setup is not possible, because these two PIM's save in incompatible file formats.
Microsoft Outlook creates PST (Personal Storage Folder) and IBM Lotus Notes creates NSF (Notes Storage Facility) file to store all its data. Hence, there is a need to export IBM Lotus Notes calendar to MS Outlook PST file format. Methods are available that carry out the migration of IBM Notes calendar to Microsoft Outlook. Here, we will discuss the most suitable NSF to PST Conversion technique to copy Lotus Notes calendar to Outlook in an efficient way.
As discussed above, a Lotus Notes calendar entries cannot be accessed directly from an Outlook calendar. Hence, this manual trick helps the user to export IBM Lotus Notes calendar into a format that Outlook can import. This method is divided into two parts, which are stated below:
In the following procedure, the conversion of Lotus Notes calendar files to ICS format takes place. The .ics format is further supported by many other email clients like Google and Yahoo, including Outlook calendar. The steps to use this method are shown here:
In this part, the output .ics file will be transferred to a Microsoft Outlook account. For this, the Outlook Import & Export wizard option will be used. Now, follow each and every step that is listed below carefully:
The above-mentioned manual method can easily export Lotus Notes calendar entries into MS Outlook. Even though it has several limitations and all are listed below:
As a result, while using the manual technique, always remember the negative view of the manual methods
It is evident that the manual procedure cannot be considered as a reliable solution to export calendar entries from Lotus Notes to Outlook calendar. Here, we are recommending to go for SysTools NSF to PST Converter tool. This software is designed to export all the Lotus Notes mailbox items to Outlook 2010/2013/2016.
Apart from this, it is very easy to use, no technical knowledge is required for this software. Besides this, it has a number of features, some of the major ones are listed below:
Due to the popularity of Outlook over Lotus Notes, users are moving the Lotus Notes data items to Outlook accounts. One of the data items is Calendar, in which users can save their upcoming appointments or events. Thus, in this following write-up, we are trying to sort out the user problem related to the copy IBM Lotus Notes calendars to Outlook 2010/2013/2016. Therefore, we have covered manual techniques as well as an automated approach. Now, a user can opt any of the solutions as per their needs.
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