Best Practice for Droid Gmail Contacts with Exchange ActiveSync?

jbh48375

Hi, folks.  After going through an Address Book nightmare this past summer, I am attempting to once again get my Contacts straight and clean.  I have just started a new job and want to bring my now clean Gmail contacts over to Exchange.  The challenge is creating duplicate contacts, then defining a go-forward strategy for creating NEW contacts so that they reside in both Gmail and Exchange without duplication.  Right now, my Droid is master and everything is fine.  However, once I port those contacts from Gmail onto my laptop, all hell breaks loose... Does Verizon have a Best Practice finally documented for this?  This past summer I spoke with no less than 5 different Customer Support reps and got 3 different answers... This is not an uncommon problem...

jbh48375

In parallel to this post, I called Verizon for Technical Support assistance.  Seems no progress has been made.  My issue this past summer were likely a result of extremely poor quality products from Microsoft, which included Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Lync (new phone system they are touting which is horrible), and Exchange.  As a go-forward strategy, I have exported all Gmail contacts to CSV for Outlook and have imported them to Exchange.  All looks good.  I am turning off phone visibility of Gmail contacts and will create all new contacts in Exchange.