Export Lotus Notes Calendar to Outlook |A Step-by-Step Guide
IBM Lotus Notes and MS Outlook both are the most popular email clients. They will allow users to manage calendars, contacts, tasks, etc., and communicate with others. At certain times, there is a need to export Lotus Notes calendar to Outlook. However, it is not possible to view IBM Notes calendar entries directly in MS Outlook setup, as these two PIM’s save in an incompatible format.
Apart from this, Outlook creates PST and Lotus Notes creates NSF file format to save all data. Thus, it is necessary to perform migration from IBM Notes to MS Outlook. Here, we are going to explain a complete procedure to add Lotus Notes calendar to Outlook in an absolute way. Before that, let us consider the user’s need behind data conversion.
Why Users Need to Sync Lotus Notes Calendar with Microsoft Outlook?
There are so many scenarios that will help to understand the migration of IBM Notes Calendar to Outlook PST in a clear way:
I am a regular user of Lotus Notes email client. But, recently, I switch to another platform, i.e., MS Outlook due to some reason. Thus, I need to add calendar entries from IBM Notes to Outlook PST format. So, kindly guide me any other effective solution so that I can easily import / export Lotus Notes calendar to Outlook PST.
In my Office, I use IBM Lotus Notes application for emailing purpose. However, now I have decided to import my calendar entries to Microsoft Outlook. For this, I have searched many approaches, but I did not find a suitable method for the same. Can you please suggest me a trustworthy solution?
In order to make sure that these queries are related to migration of IBM Notes Calendar to Outlook, let us move towards the solutions to convert IBM Notes calendar into PST file.
Manual Steps to Export Lotus Notes Calendar to Outlook
As we already discussed above, IBM Notes calendar entries cannot be directly accessed from MS Outlook. Henceforth, this manual approach will help a user to move Lotus (IBM) Notes calendar into Outlook application. This approach is divided into two different parts, which are given below:
Convert IBM Lotus Notes Calendar to ICS File Format
There is no direct manual solution to perform Lotus Notes to Outlook conversion. Thus, first you need to export IBM Notes calendar into ICS format and then, import ICS file to MS Outlook. The .ics format can support different email clients, i.e, Google and Yahoo, including MS Outlook calendar. The following steps are stated below:
a) Download Lotus Notes application on your computer system. Then, click on the Calendar section
b) Then, go to File tab and now, the drop-down menu will appear, and click Export option
c) After selecting the Export option, the Export dialog box will appear on window screen. Next, provide a particular file name to resultant calendar under the Filename option. Choose the file type, i.e., Calendar (.ics) file from the Save as option. Press Export button
d) An iCal Export box will open, and choose All documents radio button. Now, press OK button
Import iCalendar(.ics) into Microsoft Outlook
After converting Lotus Notes to ICS file, you can transfer .ics file to MS Outlook. To do this, you can use Outlook Import & Export wizard option. Now, follow each step that are listed below:
a) Open MS Outlook application on your desktop
b) Select File tab and then, a pop-out menu will take place. Click Open>> Import option
c) An Import and Export Wizard will appear on the screen. Afterward, choose Import an iCalendar (.ics) or vcalendar (.vcs) option and press Next button
d) Browse iCalendar (.ics) file that you have created in the first step. Once the file is selected, click OK button.
e) Now, a confirmation message will pop-up on the screen, select Import button
f) At the end, you can successfully Export Lotus Notes calendar to Outlook
Time to Conclude
As we all know, Calendar plays a significant role in creating events for a particular date and arrange meetings with clients. Moreover, users want to move calendar entries of Lotus Notes to MS Outlook. But, there is no direct solution to perform migration thus, first, users need to export IBM Notes calendars into ICS and then, import it into MS Outlook. Therefore, in this write-up, we have discussed a complete manual solution to export Lotus Notes calendar to Outlook PST. Keep in mind that you should follow each step very carefully without any difficulty.
