Using Office Outlook 2010 with Lotus Notes backend connector (DAMO) on Windows 7.
Many companies wish to use Lotus Domino as a mail backend, with Microsoft Outlook as the mail client.
IBM provides a connector for doing this, called DAMO - Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook. It's available on the IBM website, if your company has the necessary contractual arrangements... and if you can find it!
Here's how I went about getting it to run on Windows 7 with the Office Outlook 2010 Technical Preview. It is working for me on the Office 2010 Beta as well.
- Find the DAMO installation software somewhere on the IBM website. It may be available here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/downloads/.
- Run through the DAMO setup software. You will need two pieces of information
* Your Lotus Domino server name (I found this in Lotus Notes 8 by looking in File->Locations->Manage Locations->Edit->Servers); and
* Your Lotus Notes username.id file, which is usually stored in the Lotus Notes application folder, for example C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\Data\username.id . (Replace username with your own username.) - The installation will create a MAPI profile, which is basically a collection of settings for talking to your Lotus Domino server.
- Once installation has completed, Reboot the PC.
- Start Outlook 2010 and select the newly created MAPI profile. If you get an error that Office 2010 cannot access a file, you can work around this by right clicking on the Outlook icon in the start menu, and selecting properties->compatibility, and checking the "run this program as an administrator" checkbox. Please note that running Outlook as an administrator is a bad idea in general, and we'll set it back to normal shortly in step 8.
- The DAMO plugin will launch another setup process and retrieve mails and other settings from your domino server. Here is where I had problems. I had to close and restart outlook about 10 times, as the DAMO plugin would stall after a minute or two. Each time I restarted, it continued from where it had finished. Eventually it had imported all my mail folders and appointments.
- Close Outlook as requested.
- Set the compatibility mode back to normal by right clicking on the Outlook icon in the start menu, selecting properties->compatibility, and uncheck the "run this program as an administrator" checkbox.
- (Optional) continue complaining to colleagues about Lotus Notes' User Interface, and its impact on your productivity. :-)
If you try this out, please let me know how you go!
Comments
Can someone help me overcome
Can someone help me overcome the replication issue between DAMO 8.0.2 and Outlook 2007. Everything installed fine and I can send/receive e-mails in Outlook 2007. The problem is that it isn't replicating with the Domino Server correctly. Deleted or read e-mails in Outlook are not deleted or read in Notes. Help!!
while installing the 802
while installing the 802 version, it keeps on bugging me with the error message that there should be a MAPI config available within Outlook. Aaaargh, skipping this will point you to select the id config file but after rebooting there is no MAPI profile created.Help!!!
Not sure, but you can try
Not sure, but you can try deleting all existing mail profiles from control panel and reinstalling later DAMO. It works for me with outlook 2007
They should just us Notes 8.5.1
This will save the effort and provide the user with comparable, if not better user experience to other mail clients. Most persons complaining of the user interface (your point #9) are on older versions of Notes. A simple inplace upgrde to version 8.5.1 will fix that.
I see that the Lotus client
I see that the Lotus client will not help you to write readable texts.Lotus is just a piece of crap and the user interface is the same garbage since version 3! Thanks to IBM ! Maybe it's the dark strategy of IBM...
It is just impossible to
It is just impossible to compare Lotus Notes UI (even 8.5.1) with any Outlook, especially with Outlook 2010
"happy" Lotus Notes 8.5 user
How can you fix, that a f*ing email client is eating memory as a Visual Studio 2010!? It's a EMAIL CLIENT FOR GOD SAKE! NOT THE CUTTING EDGE DEVELOPMENT TOOL!
I want contextual right
I want contextual right clicks that matter. Going from R7.5 to R8.5 added contextual menu for sametime.. duhIt's as if they made Notes clients to make people realise what's so good with Outlook, heck even Thunderbird.
Please dont compare Nites
Please dont compare Nites with Outlook, Ive used outlook for 8 years, and now im using notes for the last 2, and Outlook is by far the better client.I loose more time farting about with a clumsy memory hungrey beast as notes its a joke. Outlook 2010 PWN anything at the moment, Hook it into shrepoint 2010 and OCS walla great Sorry IBM but your the next Novell, a lot of followers soon to be silenced when nobody wants u :(
Has anyone actually managed
Has anyone actually managed to get Damo working with Outlook 2010 properly?It works, it installs and I can send and receive email from Outlook 2010 (tried with Beta 1, 2, RC and now RTM) and that works fine (a little unstable, but fine nonetheless)The issue I have is that the only things that are replicated back to Domino are meeting invite updates. Marking items as Read or deleting them in Outlook does NOT get replicated back to the Domino server, so when you open the Notes client all the email you thought you had deleted or marked as read is still there. This is a major issue.Damo worked perfectly with Outlook 2007, but doesn't seem to work fully with 2010. If I check the iNotes Outlook 2k plugin which is what configures Damo, the replication is set to use Any server with XXXXXX as a preference. I know it replicates somethings back, as calendar acceptances work, but everything else just seems to occur inside the PST file that Damo creates for running in Outlook and doesn't replicate back to the server.I've tried using just 8.0.2 AND installing 7.0.2 (which is actually file version 8.0.1 if you take a look) and then upgrading to the 8.0.2 hotfixed version, and it has made no difference. Any help is much appreciated! (BTW I found out the hardway that it wasn't replicating back. I had to uninstall Damo and when I reinstalled and opened Outlook again I had lost weeks worth of sent items as they hadn't been replicated back to the server)
When installing DAMO with
When installing DAMO with Outlook 2010, DAMO does not recognize the Outlook version and sets the .ini entry OUTLOOK_TYPE=0. That entry is not valid. To resolve the problem, follow these steps:1. Open up the notes.ini file in the DAMO data directory. (Usually in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Lotus\DominoForOutlook)2. Find the entry OUTLOOK_TYPE and change its value to 4Hope that helps
I have the same problem.
I have the same problem. Changes from Notes go to Outlook, but nothing from Outlook pushes back into Notes. Does anyone have any ideas? i contacted IBM, and got the usual, "this is not supported".
Hello,I have the same problem
Hello,I have the same problem with damo 8.0.2.2 patch fix 4. If anyone has a solution about that, I'm very interrested!! :).thanks very MuchTempusus
Same here, no luck!! Getting
Same here, no luck!! Getting from Notes (8.5.1) but no push back frpm outlook 2010!!Does somboby know how to configure DamO with a passthrough server in Notes?thanks!
in the notes.ini file with e
in the notes.ini file with e DAMO profile for outlook 2010. Open this file up and modify the OUTLOOK_TYPE to OUTLOOK_TYPE=4This will ensure Outlook 2010 is working with DAMO 8.x.x Gooodluck guys
I am using DAMO Fix6 (latest)
I am using DAMO Fix6 (latest) with outlook 2010. Even though i have done the recommended outlook_type=4, issue still exist. The actions i take in my outlook inbox (delete, move, etc...) do not carry on to the notes server (new mail syncs down ok).
This is the only thread i have found on the internet that talking about this issue, if anyone has insights to this problem and if this can be fixed, i would be most grateful…
Hi, could u please share the
Hi, could u please share the latest fix 6? My email, apieceofcake@gmail.com, thanks.
Anyone have a copy? My IT
Anyone have a copy? My IT department won't go past interim fix 4 and I am having install issues that are fixed in release 6. email: bigdaddy8104 [at] ymail.com
Can someone please tell me
Can someone please tell me where to get a hold of the right version of DAMO to user with Outlook 2010. I can't find it ANYWHERE. Notes i a joke, I'm getting suicidal!