Lotus Notes to Office 365 migration plan. Step-by-step guide to quickly migrate Lotus Notes NSF file to Microsoft Office 365.

1. How to Migrate IBM Lotus Notes
to Office 365

2. Reasons for switching from Lotus
Notes to Office 365
• Complete Online Access.
• Latest and advance features of Exchange Online.
• Cost Effective.
• Data transfer in less time.
• Clear GUI.

3. Procedures to migrate from Lotus
Notes to Office 365
One informal way is IMAP connector. But IMAP
service also has few limitations particularly if you’re
performing migration to Office 365.
So, the better move is to pick a Notes to Office 365
migration utility.
However, follow the further steps if you want to use
IMAP for migrating from Lotus Notes.

4. It is mandatory to keep the backup of all the
mailboxes before performing mailbox migration from
Lotus Notes to Office 365.
Always Prefer IMAP for backup. Once you kept the
backup, create a new mailbox for migrating Lotus
Notes to Office 365.
Take backup & create new mailbox
before migration

5. Enable IMAP:
Open Domino Administration, click configuration,
and open the server document which runs IMAP
service. Enable TCP/IP Port and set port value as
Enable from the mail IMAP column. Click Save, then
Exit. Now use IMAP to sync emails in Office 365 from
Lotus Notes.
Using IMAP for synchronize emails
in Office 365 from Lotus Notes

6. Limitations of Lotus Notes migration
through IMAP Server
• Lotus Notes client will not connect to internet if it is
behind firewall and proxy.
• If Notes Client is disable, then it wouldn’t make
IMAP connection.
• Calendar entities can't be transferred using IMAP,
one has to execute it manually.
• But manually calendar entities transfer process takes
long time. So it is another drawback.

7. Limitations of Lotus Notes migration
through IMAP Server
• 1GB is the highest data limit if migrating using
IMAP.
• You can only migrate Lotus Notes client online data
to Microsoft Office 365. IMAP doesn't support offline
data migration to Office 365.

8. Perform migration using Notes to
Office 365 Migrator
Alternatively, it is recommended to use migration
utilities to switch from Lotus Notes to Office 365 as
IMAP services has lot of restrictions and also needs
expertise to perform number of complex filters.
Simply try Stellar NSF to PST Converter
(http://www.stellarservertools.com/nsf-pst-
converter.php) to migrate any size of Lotus Notes NSF
file to Office 365.
Check below the software feature:

9. Stellar NSF to PST Converter
Try out the software!
• Migrate Lotus Notes file to
Office 365.
• Migrates Lotus Notes to MS
Outlook.
• Converts NSF file to PST.
• And, support Lotus Notes 9.0.1,
9.0, 8.5, and all other previous
versions.