Connecting to Lotus Notes


If your organization uses a Lotus Notes messaging system, and you cannot migrate from it to Exchange Server 2003, you are not completely out of luck. Exchange Server 2003 does provide a Lotus Notes connector that can be used to connect the two messaging systems so that your organization can function smoothly, with messages flowing between both systems invisibly to the end user .

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The Lotus Notes connector also works with Domino servers.

To configure the Lotus Notes connector, you need only locate it in the routing group of your choice, right-click it, and select Properties from the context menu. We will examine each of the pertinent property pages in the following sections.

General The General page, seen in Figure 13.11, allows you to configure the Notes server name , the location of the notes.ini file, the location of the import container (where imported objects will be placed), the connector mailbox name, how often to poll the Notes server, the Notes server language, and what to do with Notes DocLinks.


Figure 13.11: General properties of the Notes connector

Address Space The Address Space page, seen in Figure 13.12, allows you to configure the common e-mail address space that both the Exchange organization and the Notes organization will use. In addition, you can specify that this connector applies to the entire Exchange organization or just this specific routing group, which is very useful when you have Notes servers distributed geographically in the same pattern as your Exchange servers.


Figure 13.12: Address Space properties of the Notes connector

To create an address space entry, click the Add button to open the Add Address Space dialog box seen in Figure 3.13.


Figure 13.13: Adding an address space to the Notes connector

Delivery Restrictions On the Delivery Restrictions page, seen in Figure 13.14, you can configure permissions to pass messages over this connector. You can leave the default setting of allowing everyone to send messages or you can modify an accept list or reject list as desired.


Figure 13.14: Delivery Restrictions properties of the Notes connector

Dirsync Options The Dirsync Options page, seen in Figure 13.15, allows you to configure multiple synchronization options, such as when the synchronization event should take place and settings for Address Book synchronization. It also lets you force an immediate Exchange or Notes synchronization event to occur.


Figure 13.15: Dirsync Options properties of the Notes connector

Import Container The Import Container page, seen in Figure 13.16, allows you to select the Active Directory container that will be used when synchronizing items into Active Directory from Notes. You also have the option to specify what action should take place when a Notes mailbox that does not have a Windows account is synchronized.


Figure 13.16: Import Container properties of the Notes connector

Export Containers The Export Containers page, seen in Figure 13.17, allows you to select the Active Directory container or containers that will be synchronized to the Notes server. As well, you have the option to enable or disable synchronization of contacts and groups to Notes.


Figure 13.17: Export Container properties of the Notes connector

Advanced The Advanced page, seen in Figure 13.18, contains all those settings for the Notes connector that didn ‚ t fit in anywhere else. Options on this page include the type of letterhead to use (the appearance of messages), which mailbox is used to route messages, how messages should be delivered, which domains are routable between the organizations, and the maximum message size that can cross the connector.


Figure 13.18: Advanced properties of the Notes connector

The Calendar Connector

Unfortunately, the Lotus Notes connector does not synchronize calendaring information between Exchange and Notes. To that end, you will need to configure the Calendar connector after you ‚ ve completed configuring the Notes connector. To configure the Calendar connector, you need to locate it in the same routing group as the configured Notes connector, right-click it, and select Properties from the context menu. We will examine each of the pertinent Properties pages in the following sections.

General The General page, seen in Figure 13.19, allows you to configure options that control how the calendar synchronization will occur. Also, you will need to associate the Calendar connector with the connector that is importing users, such as the Notes connector.


Figure 13.19: General properties of the Calendar connector

Calendar Connections The Calendar Connections page, seen in Figure 13.20, requires you to configure a calendar type to be synchronized.


Figure 13.20: Calendar Connections properties of the Calendar connector

Clicking the New button causes the Calendar Type dialog box, seen in Figure 13.21, to open, allowing you to select the calendar type. When you click OK, the Notes Calendar Connections dialog box, seen in Figure 13.22, opens, requiring you to enter the server information.


Figure 13.21: Choosing the calendar type for the Calendar connector

Figure 13.22: Specifying Notes server information for the Calendar connector

Schedule The Schedule page, seen in Figure 13.23, looks pretty much like any other Schedule page you might have seen up to now. From here you can configure when calendaring information should be synchronized across the Calendar connector.


Figure 13.23: Schedule properties of the Calendar connector



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