Lotus Notes to Exchange 2003 Migration

Currently my company's primary server is Lotus Notes running on an AS400
machine. I recently completed the installation of front end/backend Exchange
2003 setup. No issues what so ever. After reading "Exchange Server 2003
Interoperability and Migration Guide", I proceeded with installing and
configuring the Lotus Notes Connector on our Exchange 2003 backend server.
At the step where you start the Microsoft Exchange Connector for Lotus Notes
service, the AD organizational unit designated for existing lotus notes
users, started populating with all users from our Lotus Notes server as
disabled accounts. In the Lotus Notes Connector properties, under the Import
Container, I have it set that "when replicating a mailbox whose primary
windows account does not exist in the domain" = "create a disabled windows
user account". For all the Lotus Notes accounts, there are equivalent AD
accounts. I don't understand why all these disabled accounts were created.
Make me think that the connector couldn't figure out how to match AD accounts
with the lotus account. Has anybody ever experienced this? How does one go
about troubleshooting this? From what I read, it doesn't seem like the
connector is to behave this way. Additionally, if I took the disabled
account generated from the Lotus Notes connector, disabled the pre-existing
AD account and enabled the disabled account generated from the Lotus Notes
connector, I can send messages back and forth between Exchange and Lotus
Notes without any issues. I have approximately 200 users to convert and this
process to get Lotus Notes users to Exchange would not be optimal. Any help
or suggestions would be appreciated.

Al
Wed Sep 29 20:36:40 CDT 2004

I haven't used the new lotus connector, but I'm curious why you would want
it to create user accounts in your environment? The purpose of the
connector's directory sync is to, well sync the directories, not join them
like the ADC does. You want the Exchange users to see Notes users in the
directory and you want to let Notes users see Exchange users in the
directory. They don't share other resources and such, right?

To do that, use the default of creating contacts that represent the Notes
users. As you remove Notes mail stores, you can switch these out and
mailbox-enable the AD users which will add that mailbox to the directory
which will then by sync'd to the Notes GAL.

ADMT might be useful here and may know how to deal with it, but that's
beyond what I know of the new connector.




"pgee-LN-2-Exch2k3" <pgee-LN-2-Exch2k3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:FDE0FFF2-22D5-4B8C-BD76-29814D099D3A@microsoft.com...
> Currently my company's primary server is Lotus Notes running on an AS400
> machine. I recently completed the installation of front end/backend
> Exchange
> 2003 setup. No issues what so ever. After reading "Exchange Server 2003
> Interoperability and Migration Guide", I proceeded with installing and
> configuring the Lotus Notes Connector on our Exchange 2003 backend server.
> At the step where you start the Microsoft Exchange Connector for Lotus
> Notes
> service, the AD organizational unit designated for existing lotus notes
> users, started populating with all users from our Lotus Notes server as
> disabled accounts. In the Lotus Notes Connector properties, under the
> Import
> Container, I have it set that "when replicating a mailbox whose primary
> windows account does not exist in the domain" = "create a disabled windows
> user account". For all the Lotus Notes accounts, there are equivalent AD
> accounts. I don't understand why all these disabled accounts were
> created.
> Make me think that the connector couldn't figure out how to match AD
> accounts
> with the lotus account. Has anybody ever experienced this? How does one
> go
> about troubleshooting this? From what I read, it doesn't seem like the
> connector is to behave this way. Additionally, if I took the disabled
> account generated from the Lotus Notes connector, disabled the
> pre-existing
> AD account and enabled the disabled account generated from the Lotus Notes
> connector, I can send messages back and forth between Exchange and Lotus
> Notes without any issues. I have approximately 200 users to convert and
> this
> process to get Lotus Notes users to Exchange would not be optimal. Any
> help
> or suggestions would be appreciated.

pgee-LN-2-Exch2k3
Thu Sep 30 09:10:14 CDT 2004

Thanks for your response Al. Your response makes
sense...I was hoping that the connector for Lotus Notes
was to behave like the ADC.

>-----Original Message-----
>I haven't used the new lotus connector, but I'm curious
why you would want
>it to create user accounts in your environment? The
purpose of the
>connector's directory sync is to, well sync the
directories, not join them
>like the ADC does. You want the Exchange users to see
Notes users in the
>directory and you want to let Notes users see Exchange
users in the
>directory. They don't share other resources and such,
right?
>
>To do that, use the default of creating contacts that
represent the Notes
>users. As you remove Notes mail stores, you can switch
these out and
>mailbox-enable the AD users which will add that mailbox
to the directory
>which will then by sync'd to the Notes GAL.
>
>ADMT might be useful here and may know how to deal with
it, but that's
>beyond what I know of the new connector.
>
>
>
>
>"pgee-LN-2-Exch2k3" <pgee-LN-2-
Exch2k3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>message news:FDE0FFF2-22D5-4B8C-BD76-
29814D099D3A@microsoft.com...
>> Currently my company's primary server is Lotus Notes
running on an AS400
>> machine. I recently completed the installation of
front end/backend
>> Exchange
>> 2003 setup. No issues what so ever. After
reading "Exchange Server 2003
>> Interoperability and Migration Guide", I proceeded with
installing and
>> configuring the Lotus Notes Connector on our Exchange
2003 backend server.
>> At the step where you start the Microsoft Exchange
Connector for Lotus
>> Notes
>> service, the AD organizational unit designated for
existing lotus notes
>> users, started populating with all users from our Lotus
Notes server as
>> disabled accounts. In the Lotus Notes Connector
properties, under the
>> Import
>> Container, I have it set that "when replicating a
mailbox whose primary
>> windows account does not exist in the domain" = "create
a disabled windows
>> user account". For all the Lotus Notes accounts, there
are equivalent AD
>> accounts. I don't understand why all these disabled
accounts were
>> created.
>> Make me think that the connector couldn't figure out
how to match AD
>> accounts
>> with the lotus account. Has anybody ever experienced
this? How does one
>> go
>> about troubleshooting this? From what I read, it
doesn't seem like the
>> connector is to behave this way. Additionally, if I
took the disabled
>> account generated from the Lotus Notes connector,
disabled the
>> pre-existing
>> AD account and enabled the disabled account generated
from the Lotus Notes
>> connector, I can send messages back and forth between
Exchange and Lotus
>> Notes without any issues. I have approximately 200
users to convert and
>> this
>> process to get Lotus Notes users to Exchange would not
be optimal. Any
>> help
>> or suggestions would be appreciated.
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