Symptoms
You can’t use the Test-ExchangeSearch cmdlet for monitoring or testing in Microsoft Exchange Server 2016. Monitoring application by running the Test-ExchangeSearch cmdlet causes the Powershell application pool to crash. In addition, the following error message is logged:
Log Name: Application
Source: ASP.NET 4.0.30319.0
Date: DateTime
Event ID: 1325
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: ComputerName
Description: An unhandled exception occurred and the process was terminated.
Application ID: DefaultDomain
Process ID: 7332
Exception: System.NullReferenceException Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Resolution
To fix this issue, install the Cumulative Update 16 for Exchange Server 2016 or a later cumulative update for Exchange Server 2016.
References
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