Ideas to Export Large Sized NSF to PST File For Free
The daily increase in popularity of Microsoft Outlook email client is making this program a preferable one for worldwide users. NSF database file is supported by IBM Notes but, PST file is supported in MS Outlook. This situation arises the demand for a solution to export NSF to PST format. Fortunately, manual procedures exist through which enterprises can convert NSF file into PST format.
Free Approaches to Perform NSF to PST Conversion
Try the following approaches to transfer Lotus Notes email files to Outlook PST.
Approach# 1: Export IBM Lotus Notes NSF file to PST Emails With Inbuilt Tool
- Open IBM Notes application on your PC and click on File >> Open that is present on GUI of the respective mail client
- Browse the source NSF file, which needs to be exported in PST file format
- Again, click on the File button and choose Export option from the list
- This opens an Export Wizard where you have to select the file type in which the exporting procedure needs to take place.
- Click on the drop-down button of the ‘Save As Type’ field and choose ‘comma separated value’ or ‘Structured text’ from the list
- Give a name to this file and then, click on Export button. This loads a CSV Export Window or Structured text Export where you have to a suitable option on your own
- Finally, import this file into Microsoft Outlook for accessing Lotus Notes mailboxes in Outlook platform.
# 2: Microsoft Transport Suite
This is suite provided by Microsoft team to its customers for benefiting users with free migration tool. This free utility migrates NSF file to PST format. An ‘Add Mailboxes’ button exists that export Lotus Notes mailboxes directly into the Exchange Server mailboxes.
Conclusion
It is possible to export NSF to PST format through manual approaches. Being a Lotus Notes expert, primarily I always prefer and suggest using manual workarounds to solve a problem. But in this NSF to Outlook PST conversion case, I strongly recommend users to opt for any third party utility available in the market. I am stating this because manual conversion is not possible to attempt with large sized database files. Enterprises will face one or other challenges while manually converting NSF files to PST database file. Unfortunately, there is no suitable manual technique to export IBM NSF mailbox to PST file format. So, go for the utilities that are coded only to perform Lotus Notes to Outlook conversion and, you can search them easily available on the web.
