Hello everybody,

here's my configuration:

1. Umbraco 4.0.2.1
2. tested on Standalone and 3 servers config (distributedCall=true)
3. ASP.NET 2.0
4. windows server 2003 R2 SP2 (ja)
5. Windows Live Writer (build 14.0.8089.726 en) OR Word 2007

If I configure the Content Channel without selecting the Excerpt field everything works like a beauty. I can create new posts and edit existing posts using both Windows Live Writer (WLW) and Word 2007 (BEAUTIFUL!). 

If I set the Excerpt field then both WLW and Word fail with the following repro.

1. Description is mapped to a Rich Text field
2. Category is mapped to a Tags field
3. Excerpt is mapped to a TextString Field (also tried with a RichText and a Textbox multiple)
4. upon publishing i get a "Blog Server Error, Server Error 0 Occured, object reference not set to an instance of an object" (word gives a very generic "Word cannot publish this post" message)
5. no umbraco log entries are available
6. the node gets created, but it is not published
7. if I try to re-save, it does the same thing, but it creates a new node (i.e. it does not edit the previous node I ust created)

I couldn't find anything recent in our.umbraco.org or forum.umbraco.org and no bug in codeplex (I found only this http://umbraco.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=12089, but it is quite old, it has no details and it appears to be closed)

Anybody experiencing this issue?

Thanks a lot

Andrea