SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 or Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, you receive an error message that resembles the following when you start an orchestration that uses the Business Rules Engine. You see this error message in the Application log in Event Viewer:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: XLANG/s
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10034
Description:
Uncaught exception (see the 'inner exception' below) has suspended an instance of service 'BRETest.Orchestration_1(9812960e-44e6-c328-c905-b2047baeaea5)'.
The service instance will remain suspended until administratively resumed or terminated.
If resumed the instance will continue from its last persisted state and may re-throw the same unexpected exception.
InstanceId: 43540180-8a3f-4ec3-b2ab-1c46d607d2d7
Shape name: CallRules_1
ShapeId: f9123f3a-088e-4954-93d1-88aefec20f77
Exception thrown from: segment 1, progress 8
Inner exception: Unable to connect to the Rule Engine Update Service. Please verify that the service is started.
Exception type: RuleEngineUpdateServiceConnectionException
Source: Microsoft.RuleEngine
Target Site: System.Guid get_UpdateServiceId()
When this issue occurs, messages are suspended. The messages are not processed as expected. Additionally, the BizTalk Server service consumes more memory as messages are suspended.