IPhone causing Exchange Contacts to reverse display

I have a user with about 5000 contacts and we have an issue that has been lingering which I cannot seem to resolve.  Current device is an iPhone 4s 64GB.  We have a corporate Exchange 2010 server and email set up on the iPhone.
From time to time the users contacts display order will reverse from First Name Last to Last Name, First.  We have verified that both the contact options within Outlook and on the device itself are set to store and dislpay First Name Last.
We have spent several hours correcting the contact list to display correctly only to have it reverse when he makes a change on the mobile device.  Funny thing is that it does not effect all contacts and it may not necessarly be the same set of contacts twice.  Totally random.
Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks

You don't. Contacts in an Exchange account can not be moved to a different account. They are "owned" by the Exchange server.

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