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This is an oldie but goodie describing potential interop issues between WebSphere and .Net web services.

I am writing this down more to remind myself but if this become useful to anyone else, great!
XmlValidationStep:  It is the equivelent to using SelectSingleNode and must resolve to a node set
XmlValidationStepEx:  It utilizes XPathNavigator.  XmlValidationStepEx should be used when evaluating against functions such as Count()

A while back I wrote about a problem I encountered where my client’s system is experiencing “Object not set to a reference of an object” errors in the receive pipeline for one of their client.  After yet another round of experimentation, I FINALLY figured out what caused it!
This particular client appear to programmatically connect to the BizTalk server [...]

I’ve been seeing a randomly yet infrequent issue on one of my client’s BizTalk server where the MLLP receive port would throw errors like “Object not set to a reference of an object” or “Remote connection was forcibly closed by the host”. These messages bypasses error routing because there is no message body; That [...]

Earlier today, my client asked me to relocate the server responsible for BizTalk 2006 R2 to a different domain. Stupid me, I thought, how hard can it possibly be? WRONG!
Here are the steps I took with which you SHOULD NOT follow:

1. Shut down all services gracefully and domain. Restart as required.
2. Recreate [...]