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
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.
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.
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!!!