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In the last 5 month I got about 1000 search referrer hits with the search topic. My short answer to that question would be: Don't do it! However as the Buddha says: "You pick the level of your suffering yourself", there is a long answer too. I can understand, that people don't know where Hannover is or can/want to wait for it. Instead of "pouring out the baby with the bath", one can stick with Domino backends and use the Outlook connector for Domino to have it both ways: Outlook on the front end and Domino as reliable, cost effective and scalable infrastructure behind. Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft offer a flavour of it.
But if you have to go: There are a number of 3rd party vendors who offer migration products and services:

Kim Beros Consulting's XitNotes
Connected Software's Address magic
ComAxis' UniAccess
Transend's Migrator 4.0

are some examples. Microsoft also provides tools and advice.

My personal take: Stick with Domino. Just try to get that old email backup (was it a pst?) from your Outlook/95 backup opened in Outlook 2003 or use the build in fulltext search in the Outlook client. Use the connector provided by IBM if you must have Outlook.... or ~~wait for Hannover.~~ upgrade to Notes 8 (You also can enjoy yourself with R7 and the OpenNTF eMail template until then).

If you want to change something for the sake of changing why not implement "Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes"?

Update:
It cuts both ways. If you came to your senses and want to move Microsoft stuff to Notes (stuff as in Outlook, Office and Sharepoint) you have plenty of help too:

PSD conversion comes with the standard Notes client
LavaTech's Transend Migrator 6.1
Casahl provides tools to migrate your Sharepoint content to Notes and/or Quickr
Novell provides a plug-in to convert MS-Office to OpenOffice formats
CMT for Lotus Notes from BinaryTree
Aavanor does the job for you

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1 - NSF to PST converter tools can be located at { Link }

Posted by Raymond At 00:08:39 On 05/11/2008 | - Website - |

2 - No. DXL is XML and Outlook is -- not documented? At least the documentation says use the Outlook APIs, don't tamper with the PSD files. If you have to you could recreate the Domino document from the DominoDXL and use a migration tool.
As stated before: you pick the level of your suffering yourself!

stw

Posted by Stephan H. Wissel At 01:59:55 On 03/25/2006 | - Website - |

3 - You can get another NSF to PST converter tool tool from { Link }

Posted by Evan At 21:09:53 On 01/31/2008 | - Website - |

4 - Get the good notes conversion tools from { Link }

Posted by Mary At 02:28:02 On 04/01/2008 | - Website - |

5 - Is there a way in which I can insert a set of messages which are in Domino XML format into an existing PST file with out invoking the Outlook mail client(without using the outlook application)

Posted by nithin At 22:08:50 On 03/24/2006 | - Website - |

6 - You Can use Recover Data for NSF tool to get back your nsf emails easily from { Link }

Posted by Mical jack At 14:43:14 On 03/04/2008 | - Website - |

7 - Sure the available free notes connectors are the best way to perform the migrations, but several of forums have listed and continuously provide solutions for the connector problems which the users face.

A reliable and accurate conversion can be experienced with third party utilities (thoroughly checked and tested on a copy of the mailboxes) which save the user from experiencing back end problems or the methods which are unknown while migration.

Simple to use with spending of some bucks can save your time.

Some of the google searched sites which provide tools to perform nsf to pst conversion direct from domino server to exchange server:

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Posted by Jack At 22:35:34 On 07/15/2008 | - Website - |