White Paper - Migration and Coexistence of Lotus Notes Programs Using Microsoft Application Services for Lotus Notes

To reduce the cost of ownership of an IT infrastructure, many organizations first reduce administrative overhead. To reduce administrative costs, you can consolidate groupware platforms. Many organizations consolidate their platforms by migrating existing Lotus Notes programs to Exchange Server and Microsoft Outlook. This white paper describes how to migrate Notes programs to Exchange 2000 and provides a detailed guide to the migration toolset that is available on the MSDN site.

Included in this white paper:

�	Comparison of Lotus Notes and Exchange Server
�	Evaluation of migration and coexistence
�	Migration process
�	Migration toolset
�	Additional information and resources

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Microsoft continues to update the tools that support interoperability among Lotus Domino R5 and Lotus Domino 6, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. The updated tools for Lotus Domino replace the following tools that are included with Exchange Server 2003 and with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2:

�	Exchange Connector for Lotus Notes
�	Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes
�	Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes

To obtain these tools and to obtain guidance and additional resources, visit the following Microsoft Web site: These updated tools provide additional functionality and address several issues that customers reported with earlier versions of the tools.