XFOR: Backslashes in Meeting Requests Double in Quantity When You Migrate from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange (273356)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5
This article was previously published under Q273356

SYMPTOMS

When you are migrating users from Lotus Notes R4.6, or R5 to Exchange Server 5.5, or Exchange 2000 Server where meetings are present in the Lotus Notes calendar that contain backslashes in either the Subject, or Description fields, the backslashes appear to double in quantity in the Outlook Calendar after you migrate this user to Exchange.

For example, before the migration, in the Lotus Notes calendar, a meeting exists with the description of:

Connect to \\server\share\file ...

After the migration, when you view this meeting in the Outlook calendar, the description appears as:

Connect to \\\\server\\share\\file ...

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 and Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server.

MORE INFORMATION

After you complete the migration process, the Microsoft Exchange Migration Wizard generates a message that contains an .sc2 file attachment, which has the subject Migrated Calendar Information. You have to import this file into Outlook in order to populate the Outlook Calendar with the calendar information from Lotus Notes.

In the .sc2 file, the backslashes double even before you import this file into Outlook.

Here is a sample of an .sc2 file that contains backslashes that have doubled: 
   SingleAppointments:
   {
	Start: 09-22-2000 13:15
	End:   09-22-2000 14:15
	Text:  "backslash test 2 \\\\  "\\\\""
	BusyType: 1
   Attendees:
   {
	UserDisplay: "FirstName LastName"
        UserEntryID:  "00/00/00/00/81/2B/1F/A4/BE/A3/10/19/9Dn/00/DD/01/0FT/02/00/00/01/00FirstName\ 
         /20LastName/00NOTES/00FirstName/20LastName/2FCertifier/40Domain/00"
	UserSearchKey: "NOTES/3AFIRSTNAME/20LASTNAME/2FCERTIFIER/40DOMAIN/00"
	IsUserDistributionList:	F
	UserWell:	1
	AttendeeStatus:	1
   }

   Connect to  \\\\server\\share\\file
   }
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:4/25/2005
Keywords:kbbug kbpending KB273356
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