 <p>If you can modify the configuration file on the server here's what you can do to get the exception information through the service.</p> <p>You need to add a service behavior section to the server's config.</p> <pre><code>&lt;behaviors&gt; &lt;serviceBehaviors&gt; &lt;behavior name="serviceNameBehavior"&gt; &lt;serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="True" /&gt; &lt;/behavior&gt; &lt;/serviceBehaviors&gt; &lt;/behaviors&gt; </code></pre> <p>Then associate the service with that behavior.</p> <pre><code>&lt;service name="serviceName" behaviorConfiguration="serviceNameBehavior" ... </code></pre>