Pushing Notes Details to Outlook Global Address Book

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Hi,

We are currently in the process of migrating our 50+ users to Outlook 365 cloud based email. Retaining Lotus Notes client for databases.

We have a number of Notes databases which have email functionality, building and opening an email in the Notes client, which I am working on now building and opening in Outlook client. All working great. Other than being able to paste some programmatically copied text into the body of an Outlook email. Users just use Ctrl-V for now until I can find a solution.

However, we have a Notes database which contains all our client contact details and email addresses and we need to find a way of updating the Outlook Global address book with these details on a daily basis.

Has anyone out there done anything similar … ?

I used Notrix a good while back, to move Notes data to and from SQL tables and have spoken to the guys at ViewDo Labs who now maintain Notrix. Unfortunately Notrix can’t push data directly to Outlook. But it seems we could push data from our contacts database into the Notes NAB which can then sync with AD which can then sync with Outlook.

But I don’t think we want all our client details in AD.

Any thoughts or ideas greatly received.

Many thanks in advance

Andy

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Subject: Take a look at ldifde.exe

One of my customers had the same question a few months ago.
I used the free Microsoft tool ldifde.exe to synchronize Domino Addressbooks with the Active Directory by a Lotusscript agent that writes entries in a text file and execute ldifde with parameters using the textfile as input.

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Subject: AD not an option really

We have almost 10K client documents to maintain in Outlook address book so we don’t want to create 10K new AD accounts unfortunately.

Thanks for the reply.

Andy

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Subject: Vcard

You can create vcard files from the notes address book and then import them into Outlook 360

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Subject: consider domino ldap?

Domino can publishes the server addressbooks (names.nsf+ 2ndary ones in Directory Assistance) over the LDAP task.
Maybe outlook360 point to the domino LDAP directory for dynamic lookups to prevent the whole import/export scenario