Client Automation Tool

The IONET Client Automation Tool provides automatic, centralised management of local Lotus Notes Mail, Archives, Address Books and Chats.

This allows Administrators to silently control otherwise inaccessible files on User PCs, invisibly to the User, and from a central location.

This protects local Notes data, ensuring it is secure, backed up, and accessible for both ongoing Notes use and data migration purposes.

It also allows automatic migration of local Mail and Archive NSFs to PST.

Overview

Administrators can identify local Notes Mail and Archives, decrypt Mail and Archives prior to migrating, synchronise Address Book Contacts with Mail, upload local Mail, Archives & Chats to a central Domino Server, or migrate local Mail & Archives directly to PSTs in-place on User PCs.

Multiple options provide full control for the Administrator, including conversion settings, logging, status reports and reprocessing control.

The tool is deployed in the environment using standard Notes Desktop Policies, and integrates with Notes Pipeliner functionality.

This allows centralised preparation of the entire Notes/Domino environment, including data held only locally on PCs, prior to migration.

Description

Client Automation is deployed on a Domino Server as a small database with open design, and a Notes Desktop Policy is used to set this as a 'Startup DB' on the Notes Client. When the Notes Client launches, the Client Automation database starts a background agent which runs invisibly on the Notes Client. This agent performs tasks as defined by the Administrator, but is not seen the user (running in the background). In this way Notes Administrators can perform pre-migration tasks on remote User PCs.

Because the Client Automation agent runs on the Notes Client using the ID of the Notes User, it can perform tasks restricted to that ID (e.g. mail decryption) and also local to the PC (e.g. identifying local mail archives).

Options

1. Identify Local Mail & Archives. Discover which users have local Archives prior to migration. This information is logged in the Pipeliner.
2. Synch Address Book with Mail. Synchronise local Personal Address Book Contacts with the user Mail File to ensure that all Contacts are in the Mail File to be migrated.
3. Decrypt Mail. It is important to decrypt encrypted mail sent to the user, in either production Mail or Archives, local or Server-based, prior to migration. Otherwise this mail cannot be migrated by a Server-run process.
4. Decrypt Local Mail DBs. This is useful to decrypt any local Mail or Archives where the NSF itself is encrypted.
5. Upload Local Archives. Local archives can be uploaded to a server-based NSF for migration, e.g. when migrating to MS365. Administrators can also choose to merge local archives with the Users production mail file, an existing archive mail file, or a new archive mail file.
6. Export Local Archives to PST. Local Notes Archives can be migrated in-place to a local PST on the Users PC. Administrators have various options to control this migration process.

Logging

All action and errors are logged centrally in the Pipeliner.

Key Features

Centrally controlled by the Administrator.

Automatic Installation and Operation.

Runs invisibly to the User.

Identifies local Archive Databases.

Decrypts Mail and Archives using the User ID.

Synchronises Mail and Address Book Contacts and Groups.

Uploads local Archives to a Domino Server.

Uploads local Sametime Chats to a Domino Server.

Synchronises local Address Book contacts with Mail.

Converts local Archives to PSTs on the PC, with full fidelity.

Does not require Microsoft Outlook.

Retains Metadata and Folder structures.

Supports multiple character sets.

Leaves original data intact.

Logs errors and actions.

Some of our Clients

Heineken Application migration to SharePoint.	Singapore Power 3rd Party Mail migration to MS365.	Sonoco Application migration to SharePoint.	US Steel Mail migration to MS365, Quickr to SharePoint.
State of Missouri Application migration to PDF.	JGC Application migration to SharePoint.	NZ Ministry of Health Application migration to SharePoint.	NZ Police Mail migration to MS365.
Farmers National Mail migration to MS365, Apps to SharePoint.	Tata Steel Application migration to SharePoint.	Continental Tyres Application migration to SharePoint.	Omron Application migration to SharePoint.
Nynas Application migration to SharePoint.	St Catherine U Application migration to Box.	Grede Application migration to SharePoint.	Coatex Application migration to SharePoint.
Virbac Application migration to G Suite.	NZ Whaikaha Application migration to Objective.	AMEC Mail migration to Exchange.	Yara User Self-Service NSF PST uploads to Office 365.
KNMT Quickr migration to SharePoint.	Phoenix S.p.A. Mail migration to Exchange.	Hastings Deering Application migration to SharePoint.	DXC Mail migration to SharePoint.

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