When you run the Test-ExchangeSearch cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 environment, the command fails if it runs against a remote server that is located in a different domain. For example, this problem occurs if you run the Test-ExchangeSearch cmdlet in domain A, and the name of the target server is ExServerB in Domain B of the same forest. This is demonstrated in the following command.

Test-ExchangeSearch -server ExServerB.domainB

ExServerB.domainB is the FQDN of ExServerB.

Additionally, you receive the following error message:

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This problem occurs because the Test-ExchangeSearch cmdlet uses the unqualified short name of the server to query the content indexing server.

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To resolve this problem, install Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007.

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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For more information about the Exchange Management Shell and about cmdlets, visit the following Microsoft Web site: For more information about the terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For more information about the naming schema for Exchange Server software updates, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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