Convert Outlook mailbox to Lotus notes mailbox – Convert .pst to .nsf

The way to easily convert an Outlook mailbox to a Lotus Notes mailbox seems to be easy when described by Lotus tech support. You can find it here.

However, in my opinion this is a bit dry… What to do before that ? And, especially, what to do after, to present the user with a ready to use converted mailbox, not something that looks like a dump bag in which you just threw the e-mail that were in the Outlook mailbox.

 

Set up Lotus Notes standard mail client on client computer for migration from Outlook.

(See master post about migration from Outlook)

In this case, the set-up does not differ from a usual setup, except for 3 points that must be performed:

 

Set up Outlook standard mail client on client computer for migration to Lotus Notes

(See main post here)

First, log on as administrator on the user’s computer and install Outlook with all default options.

 

Migration from Outlook to Lotus Notes using nupgrade 3

(See master post here)

 

Lotus Notes – Transfer mail data between mailboxes through archiving

In some particular cases, you might want to transfer mail data from 1 mailbox to another one. (like if you are converting an Outlook mailbox to a Lotus Notes mailbox)

You can do this through copy-and-paste, but it takes a lot of time, and if you have many folders in your mailbox structure, it quickly becomes hell.

1 way to go is through mail archiving.

 

A freeware application to retrieve deleted files – Free deleted file retriever

Want to be the hero of the day in the office ?

Each time I search for a utility to restore deleted files, I find a lot of software that can show you for free how well they would do the job if you payed.

This one is free, very simple to use.

Credits to Junko for finding it and pushing me to use it.

 

php developper – Adobe PDF error message indicating “Adobe reader could not open the file ‘XXX.fdf’ because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been corrupted (for example it has been sent as an email attachment and wasn’t correctly decoded)”

Symptoms:

When accessing pdf documents linked on your site, users get the following error messages:

* A blank white screen in the browser (Intermittent*).
* Adobe PDF error message indicating “Adobe reader could not open the file ‘XXX.fdf’ because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been corrupted (for example it has been sent as an email attachment and wasn’t correctly decoded)”
* Adobe PDF error message indicating “The created pdf is corrupted and cannot be opened”.
* Adobe PDF error message indicating “The file is damaged and could not be repaired”.

 

Trouble viewing pdf file in internent Explorer – “Adobe Reader could not open ‘filename.fdf’ because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been corrupted”

Symptoms:

In Internet Explorer, when you click on a link to a pdf file, you get the error message “Adobe Reader could not open ‘filename.fdf’ because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been corrupted.”

 

Remote Client shutdown – Shutdown all your clients remotely, at once.

I made a post about WOL – Wake up On LAN – a while ago.

Now, here is how to shutdown all your clients remotely, at once. You can do this by using a script.

 

Lotus Notes – Can not open attachement – “There was an error opening this document. The filename, directory name or volume lable syntax is incorrect” error message

Symptoms:

When you try to open an attachment in Lotus Note, the required application is launched but the file doe not open, and instead you get the following error message:

“There was an error opening this document. The filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect”.

Also, the attachment name is unreadable, made only of little points or squares.

And this happens especially when your counterpart is Japanese, Chinese, Arab… or any nationality that use an alphabet different from the western one.