Comparison of features and functionality of Lotus Notes Domino and Microsoft Exchange Email systems and will be useful for beginners

1. EXCHANGE VS DOMINO
Features Compared

2. DIRECTORY
Exchange Domino
AD NAB(Notes Address Book)
Local Contacts Local Contacts
Offline Address Book(OAB) Mobile directory(MDB)
Web Service based/ Public Folder NRPC/Replication
OAB generated on Mailbox server MDB generated on Directory
Catalog(DC) server
CAS server copies OAB from MBX
server and sends to user
A replica put into user’s home
servers
Outlook
CachedMode>AutoDiscover>CAS
Notes Client (replica
task)>dconfig>Home server policy
Suggested Contacts Recent Contacts
Auto-Complete Type Ahead

3. MAIL ROUTING
Exchange Domino
Based on Exchange Attributes In
Person’s AD Account
Person’s PAB information
AD site Based NNN Based
Implicit intra-organization Send
connector
Servers having same NNN
AD site link for inter site Connect docs/NNN for inter
Link Cost Connect doc Cost
Hub Role Notes Router
Default Protocol is SMTP NRPC for inter Domino and SMTP
for internet
Send and receive Connectors Foreign SMTP domain, SMTP
connection document and SMTP
listener
Accepted Domains Global Domain and Aliases

4. DELETED ITEMS/DB RECOVERY
Exchange Domino
Deleted Items Trash
Recover Deleted Item Recover From Backup
Purges(Single Item Recovery) Recover From Backup
Litigation Hold/Recover From
Backup
Recover From Backup
Soft Deleted((Hiding Only)
)/Disconnected DB
AdminP Approval/Recover From
Backup

5. SEARCH
Exchange Domino
Column Vise Column Vise
Advanced Search(Property based) Advanced Search(Field based)
Exchange Search/Windows
Search
Server FT Index/Local FT Search
Attachment indexing based on
Filters
Attachment indexing based on
KeyView Filters
Discovery Mailbox searches for all
the mail boxes in the organization
Domain Indexing for File system
files/Domain Databases in a single
place

6. USER MANAGEMENT
Exchange Domino
AD users and computers and EMC Lotus notes Admin client
EMS Third Party apps/Live console
Scripts Scripts
New_Requests(Move) AdminP Requests

7. CLIENTS
Exchange Domino
Outlook(MAPI RPC) Lotus Notes Client(NRPC)
OWA(HTTP) iNotes(HTTP)
IMAP IMAP
POP3 POP3
Active Sync Traveler
BES BES
Web services inbuilt Customizable

8. OFFLINE MODE
Exchange Lotus Notes
Outlook Cached Mode/Offline
Mode
Offline
Local outlook.ost file Local mail.nsf file
Archive.pst Archive.nsf
OAB and local contacts MobileDir and Local Contacts

9. ACCESS DELEGATION
Exchange Lotus Notes
Full Access to Mailbox(open MBX
in Outlook)
Reader Access
Receive As(log on) to Mailbox DB Reader + Access
Send As Author + Access
Folder wise /Calendar Access by
Owner
Design Access/Access Delegation
preferences by Owner

10. ARCHIVE
Exchange Lotus Notes
Personal Folder(.pst on PC) Archive stored on local
Personal Archive Archive stored on server
Auto archive based on Retention
policy settings
Based on archive profile settings
and policies

11. HIGH AVAILABILITY AND FAIL-OVER
Exchange Lotus Notes
DAG Clusters
Continuous/Log shipping
replication
Event based cluster replication
Active Manager Cluster Manager
Mail delivered to active MDB copy Home mail server copy