Pro-tip: Self-Help: Bulk Exporting Contacts from Exchange to Gmail with full-fidelity
This is the best way I’ve found so far to do it with minimal pain:
- Go to Outlook, contacts view;
- Select all contacts (CTRL+A);
- On the menu (or ribbon if Outlook 2010), select forward as business contact;
- A new email shows up with all contacts as vCard files (*.vcf). Select them all (CTRL+A again), copy and then paste into a folder (e.g.: c:\temp);
- Open a command prompt. In the folder you copied the files to, run “copy *.vcf all.vcf”
- Go to Gmail, contacts and then find the import vCard dialog.
- Select all.vcf
- Voila’
This definitely beats using CSV - which loses photos and other fields - but is still bulk rather than one-by-one.
