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Getting Contacts (Not Users) out of Your Notes/Domino NAB and into Office 365 Contacts

Recently we've been undertaking a task to move from IBM Domino to Office 365 with particular emphasis on the mail system. One of the first big tasks is to move all of our corporate contacts from the Domino NAB over to the Contacts area of office 365. Corporate Contacts Corporate contacts, in this sense are contacts which are shared by the entire organisation. I'm not talking about actual users  who will have an Office 365 licence with your company or about personal contacts, who would normally reside in the personal address book. In our case, we had about 6500 corporate contacts who needed to be migrated. There's a contacts screen in Office 365 which is accessible from the Admin portal. It's under users, then contacts. Exporting from Domino In IBM Notes, open your company's address book and press Ctrl+A on people. If you have your staff and non-staff in the same address book, you'll probably want to sort by company and deselect all the staff. Ne...

Apple iOS6 Calendaring bug Affecting Exchange (and by extension, Lotus)

One of the things that the company I work for (and most others) do on a regular basis is send meeting invites to people at other companies and on various other systems.  Notes meeting handling isn't perfect and we've had trouble with Blackberry and Google calendars in the past, but nothing like the trouble we've had this week. It seems that when we send a meeting invite out and one of our recipients cancels, they take over the meeting as chair and cancel it for the remaining participants too - even if they've already accepted. It's taken us a while to get our head around the problem, particularly as it happened with several different meetings and multiple outside sources.  Naturally, you presume that several systems out there can't be wrong and it must be a problem at our end - even if we haven't changed anything.  Right? Wrong! As it turns out, the recently released Apple iOS 6 has a flaw which trips up Microsoft Exchange systems not configured acco...