How can I migrate Outlook contacts to Lotus Notes without re-entering them manually?

[williamturner]

Hello guys,

My organization is shifting from Microsoft Outlook to IBM Lotus Notes, and email migration is already done. However, we are stuck with contacts. All contacts are currently stored in PST files, and Lotus Notes does not read PST contacts directly. We tried exporting contacts to CSV and importing them into Notes, but many fields such as phone numbers and addresses did not appear correctly. Some contacts were duplicated while others were missing completely. Since this is an official migration, manual re-entry is not acceptable due to time constraints and the risk of human error. We need a clean and structured way to move Outlook contacts into Lotus Notes so that they are usable immediately.

[teneg]

Hey,

Outlook​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ and Lotus Notes have different internal formats, which is the main reason direct migration of contacts sometimes fails. CSV exports generally compress contact data and create field-mapping problems in Lotus Notes. It is a better method to first change Outlook contacts to the vCard format and then convert them to Lotus Notes-compatible files using a VCF to NSF converter.

A correct solution should:

Keep all the contact fields

Not have duplicate or missing entries

Create a fully Notes-compatible NSF file

When a similar migration was carried out, the DataVare vCard Export Import tool efficiently converted vCard contacts into the Lotus Notes-accessible NSF format, so the contacts were instantly available in Lotus Notes without the need for additional ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌cleanup.