Comments on: Using Outlook 2003 to read Lotus Notes Email http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/ The blog of Sam Newman Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:55:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Random Thoughts » Blog Archive » Design Review: Lotus Notes 8 vs. MS Outlook 2007 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/comment-page-5/#comment-3175 Random Thoughts » Blog Archive » Design Review: Lotus Notes 8 vs. MS Outlook 2007 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:10:56 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/#comment-3175 [...] interface eventhough the company used Lotus Notes. (For those interested here is a link to the connector, you must have domino 7 and outlook [...] [...] interface eventhough the company used Lotus Notes. (For those interested here is a link to the connector, you must have domino 7 and outlook [...]

]]> By: Vinu http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/comment-page-5/#comment-3167 Vinu Fri, 08 May 2009 15:54:54 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/#comment-3167 Great article. Very useful. Thanks. Great article. Very useful. Thanks.

]]> By: Guido http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/comment-page-5/#comment-3166 Guido Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:50:12 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/#comment-3166 I had the same problem and could not get it to work - until I added the Notes application folder and data folder to my PATH environment. This worked like a charm and everything suddenly worked. I had the same problem and could not get it to work – until I added the Notes application folder and data folder to my PATH environment. This worked like a charm and everything suddenly worked.

]]> By: Travis http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/comment-page-5/#comment-3164 Travis Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:35:57 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/#comment-3164 Update: I got it working again. If you run the Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard on a PC that is known-good, it will create a file that you can restore from on your new PC. I ran the program on my old machine, moved the file to my new machine and restored it. The Outlook Connector started right up where it left off. Again, this is on Office 2003 SP3 in WinXP Pro SP2. I don't know if it would work, but I could e-mail that file to those of you who are having trouble and you could try running a restore off it. Just e-mail me and I'll send it over - it's ~5MB. Update: I got it working again. If you run the Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard on a PC that is known-good, it will create a file that you can restore from on your new PC. I ran the program on my old machine, moved the file to my new machine and restored it. The Outlook Connector started right up where it left off. Again, this is on Office 2003 SP3 in WinXP Pro SP2.

I don’t know if it would work, but I could e-mail that file to those of you who are having trouble and you could try running a restore off it. Just e-mail me and I’ll send it over – it’s ~5MB.

]]> By: Chris http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/comment-page-5/#comment-3163 Chris Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:21:43 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/#comment-3163 Ok, I have just gone through some pain upgrading to our office network standard of Lotus Scrotes 8.0 while still using Outlook 2003 with the connector. I am running XP. It is working ok now but not perfectly. I can always receive mail but sometimes mail gets hung up in the sent folder, I'm not sure why. My friend has seen similar issues and seems to think that they are related to the address book in some way and the autofill of addresses in the To: field. Anyway, good luck, it does work but not reliably... Ok, I have just gone through some pain upgrading to our office network standard of Lotus Scrotes 8.0 while still using Outlook 2003 with the connector. I am running XP.
It is working ok now but not perfectly. I can always receive mail but sometimes mail gets hung up in the sent folder, I’m not sure why. My friend has seen similar issues and seems to think that they are related to the address book in some way and the autofill of addresses in the To: field.
Anyway, good luck, it does work but not reliably…

]]> By: Travis http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/comment-page-5/#comment-3162 Travis Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:52:03 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/#comment-3162 I just got a new PC at work - prior to that, had Outlook 2003 w/SP3 installed and the connector was working fine all in Win XP. Now I've got a new box with the same aforementioned components and I cannot get the Connector to work. I've followed all the steps everyone above has suggested to no avail. (Including the registry hack.) I've tried unloading all the Updates for Office that I can (907417, 947355, 943985, and 945185 are un-removable). I've even tried copying all three mail files (.pst, .nst, & .dat) in addition to the other directory of files from my old box. Nothing. So the crux of the matter is...how does one get the connector working in an Office 2003 SP3 environment? Unloading Office w/no SP's isn't an option, I'm afraid as it is a corporate load set. When I add the account from w/in Outlook (not Control Panel -> mail), then "Set as Default" I get this error: "The specified default store could not be opened. Please make sure you can access your default store and try again." then the "Deliver new e-mail" setting gets reverted back to Personal Folders. That just sounds like another way of saying "Unable to open your default e-mail folders..." Which, BTW, does not get displayed upon startup. Outlook opens fine, but when you try to expand the contents of the Connector folder, I get "Unable to expand the folder. The set of folders could not be opened. The server is not available. Contact your admin..." It looks to me like the Connector can't open the .nst file (which I have tried recreating from scratch and copying the old one over). Any ideas gang? I just got a new PC at work – prior to that, had Outlook 2003 w/SP3 installed and the connector was working fine all in Win XP. Now I’ve got a new box with the same aforementioned components and I cannot get the Connector to work. I’ve followed all the steps everyone above has suggested to no avail. (Including the registry hack.)

I’ve tried unloading all the Updates for Office that I can (907417, 947355, 943985, and 945185 are un-removable). I’ve even tried copying all three mail files (.pst, .nst, & .dat) in addition to the other directory of files from my old box. Nothing.

So the crux of the matter is…how does one get the connector working in an Office 2003 SP3 environment? Unloading Office w/no SP’s isn’t an option, I’m afraid as it is a corporate load set.

When I add the account from w/in Outlook (not Control Panel -> mail), then “Set as Default” I get this error: “The specified default store could not be opened. Please make sure you can access your default store and try again.” then the “Deliver new e-mail” setting gets reverted back to Personal Folders. That just sounds like another way of saying “Unable to open your default e-mail folders…” Which, BTW, does not get displayed upon startup. Outlook opens fine, but when you try to expand the contents of the Connector folder, I get “Unable to expand the folder. The set of folders could not be opened. The server is not available. Contact your admin…”

It looks to me like the Connector can’t open the .nst file (which I have tried recreating from scratch and copying the old one over). Any ideas gang?

]]> By: Lauren http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/comment-page-5/#comment-3161 Lauren Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:56:03 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/#comment-3161 I also had the problem where the folder was not found, unable to open etc.. to fix it, i didn't uninstall anything. i simply closed outlook. i did not uninstall anything. Went to Control Panel/ Mail then clicked on Data Files and removed the outlook connector. then when i re-opened outlook it worked. Have been using it for over a year now and absolutely love it. Now i just can't wait for something to come out that works with 07. I also had the problem where the folder was not found, unable to open etc..
to fix it, i didn’t uninstall anything. i simply closed outlook. i did not uninstall anything. Went to Control Panel/ Mail then clicked on Data Files and removed the outlook connector. then when i re-opened outlook it worked.

Have been using it for over a year now and absolutely love it. Now i just can’t wait for something to come out that works with 07.

]]> By: simon http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/comment-page-5/#comment-3157 simon Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:04:06 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/#comment-3157 I think you need to create a new profile with no other accounts in it. go to control panel, mail, show profiles. highlight "prompt for a profile to be used" (this is so you don't lose any of your previous settings). then click add, and create a new profile that ONLY has the notes connector in it. Outlook will start up, grind for a while while it replicates folders etc, then it will work. I'm gonna try adding personal folders now, wish me luck. Oh, I did an uninstall and reinstall of office to get rid of the hotfix too. Simon I think you need to create a new profile with no other accounts in it. go to control panel, mail, show profiles. highlight “prompt for a profile to be used” (this is so you don’t lose any of your previous settings). then click add, and create a new profile that ONLY has the notes connector in it. Outlook will start up, grind for a while while it replicates folders etc, then it will work. I’m gonna try adding personal folders now, wish me luck.

Oh, I did an uninstall and reinstall of office to get rid of the hotfix too.
Simon

]]> By: pst files viewer http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/comment-page-5/#comment-3156 pst files viewer Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:14:11 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/#comment-3156 In this situation advise try-Recovert Toolbox for Outlook,program helped me many times and as far as i know is freeware,it will help you to restore your data from files with *.pst and *.ost extension,tool will work under all supported versions of Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as with Microsoft Outlook,can retrieve all contents as a number of files in *.vcf, *.txt and *.eml formats,will extract thousands of different files, that will be placed into any folder, upon your choice,converting of recovered data into a *.pst file, that can be opened by any mail client or viewer .pst file, compatible with Microsoft Outlook, file size will not exceed 1Gb. In this situation advise try-Recovert Toolbox for Outlook,program helped me many times and as far as i know is freeware,it will help you to restore your data from files with *.pst and *.ost extension,tool will work under all supported versions of Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as with Microsoft Outlook,can retrieve all contents as a number of files in *.vcf, *.txt and *.eml formats,will extract thousands of different files, that will be placed into any folder, upon your choice,converting of recovered data into a *.pst file, that can be opened by any mail client or viewer .pst file, compatible with Microsoft Outlook, file size will not exceed 1Gb.

]]> By: ost file viewer http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/comment-page-5/#comment-3154 ost file viewer Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:10:22 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/05/04/using-outlook-2003-to-read-lotus-notes-email/#comment-3154 For this business try this tool,as far as i know it is free and it allows to recover *.ost files, when Microsoft Exchange Server gets out of order and your data may be lost,open damaged files, you can open your corrupted *.ost file and estimate data losses,can convert *.ost files to *.pst files, that can be easily opened by any email client, compatible with Microsoft Outlook,convert your *.ost to *.pst, but to extract a list of files in such formats, as: *.eml. *.vcf and *.txt,allows to view a ost file and avoid extracting, for example, 50 Mb of your content, you can extract all files from .ost viewer mail, than just to copy and paste emails and contacts, that you need,view ost file runs under all versions of Windows operating system, such as: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista. For this business try this tool,as far as i know it is free and it allows to recover *.ost files, when Microsoft Exchange Server gets out of order and your data may be lost,open damaged files, you can open your corrupted *.ost file and estimate data losses,can convert *.ost files to *.pst files, that can be easily opened by any email client, compatible with Microsoft Outlook,convert your *.ost to *.pst, but to extract a list of files in such formats, as: *.eml. *.vcf and *.txt,allows to view a ost file and avoid extracting, for example, 50 Mb of your content, you can extract all files from .ost viewer mail, than just to copy and paste emails and contacts, that you need,view ost file runs under all versions of Windows operating system, such as: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

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