Synchronize your Lotus Notes address books for remote access
April 27 2010 09:20:11 AM
If you use a web browser or mobile device to access your electronic mail, you will probably want your contacts in your Lotus Notes address book available for your use remotely.Doing so requires enabling synchronization between the address book on your workstation, with the one in your web mailbox. The procedure is to first turn on the option to synchronize, and then you need to run the synchronization.
Enable Synchronization on the Replicator
On your Lotus Notes client menu, you need to go to File -> Preferences -> Contacts. Click on the box 'Enable Synchronize Contacts on the Replicator'.
Next, you need to enable Replication for your address book (Replication is the Lotus Notes synchronization).
Go to the 'Open' button, and then click on 'Replication and Sync'.
A page listing databases that are replicated for you will open up. Locate the one called 'Synchronize Contacts'. Click the 'Enable' box on the Synchronize Contacts line.
If you want to force replication right now, just click the 'Start Now' button. Otherwise the Lotus Notes client will ask you when shutting down if you want to send any changes to the server (assuming you haven't disabled that option). If you've recently made changes to your address book, then click 'Yes' so that it makes a backup and sends changes to your web interface. If you haven't made any changes, you can just click no which will save you some time shutting down.
If you'd like to view your 'web' version of your contacts to make sure everything is synchronizing, open your mailbox, and on the menu go to 'Actions -> Lotus iNotes -> Open mail file copy of Contacts'. Alternatively, you could just open your address book when logged into your mailbox via the internet access.
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