Symptoms
Consider the following scenario:
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You use the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)-based SAP adapter to connect BizTalk applications to an SAP database in Microsoft BizTalk Server.
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You have an incoming Transactional Remote Function Call (tRFC) operation through a two-way receive location.
In this scenario, when the tRFC reply is invoked by using the .NET Connector (NCo), the WCF-SAP adapter might raise an error message that resembles the following:
"Details "System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
Resolution
This issue is fixed in the following cumulative updates for BizTalk Server:
Cumulative Update 4 for BizTalk Server 2016
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
For information about the service packs and cumulative update list for BizTalk Server, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
2555976 Service pack and cumulative update list for BizTalk Server
For more information about BizTalk Server hotfixes, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
2003907 Information about BizTalk hotfixes and Service Pack support
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