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These days new version of Azure Service Bus for Windows Server was published. That means updating of all running farms, which is not really my lovely task. And, as expected my Workflow Manager Setup ran in following error: I grabbed in the log file and found same information shown in dialog above...
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Imaging you are receiving some events which have to be used to activate new workflow instance Wi of some workflow type W. As long the workflow completes faster than new events arrives, successive workflow activation will execute ordered. That means for each event Ek, workflow instance Wk will be activated...
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If you want to implement the long running business process or in other words to automate the business process, the Windows Workflow Foundation is definitely great choice. In addition you might probably want to use the host like AppFabric and Workflow Manager. Assuming that you are SharePoint guy or you...
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When working with Workflows, which running in Workflow Manager (SP devs call it usually SharePoint Workflow) on-premises or in Office 365 you might get following error: Expression: DateTime.Now.ToString() " Property access conversion to an activity is not supported for property 'CurrentDomain'...
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If you want to develop workflows for Workflow Manager, you do not have to necessarily install the full Service Bus and Workflow Manager server on development box. You can do this, but it is not required. To prepare you box go to this official download page: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details...
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Service Bus for Windows Server provides two ways to setup access rights to its entities (queues/topics). Since the Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) is not available on Windows Server, the Service Bus for Windows Server includes a simple Service Bus Security Token Service (SBSTS). The SBSTS...
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Assume you have an activity which is executing for very long time. This is so called Long-Running workflow. In fact long-running scenario is one of scenarios in Commuter Sciences which practically can very easy be solved by Using Microsoft Workflow Foundation. Following workflow show never ending workflow...
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To get a feeling how SharePoint Workflows look like under the hub take a look on following example: http://developers.de/media/p/422263.aspx . This is the original XML which fully (natively) describe the workflow deployed by SharePoint. Following picture shows a snapshot of the XML which can be downloaded...
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As I described here Windows Azure Workflow (Workflow Manager) is originally designed to run in the cloud. That means it designed as multitenant application. because of that the Workflow Manager must fulfill several very sensitive security requirements. One of used approaches is so called “Reduced Trusted...
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When deploying Workflows within Workflow Manager as long activities inside of trusted surface are used, there is no assembly which should be referenced or published to the host. All required is contained in a XAML. Usually one workflow is WorkflowDefinition which basically defines the activation envelope...
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Note that when using workflows with Variables of type Exception, you might run into serialization issues. This is usually not a general Workflow problem. However if you use persistence feature, workflow host with enforce serialization of all variables in the workflow. Because Exception is not...
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RTM Build of Service Bus and Workflow Manager 1.0 is available for download in Microsoft Download Center: It is up to now still not officially announced in term of marketing drums, but first posts published 1 hour ago by team members are out there. Anyhow the bits which can be downloaded (click on image...
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When working with Windows Azure Workflow, Workflow Host Manager or Share Point 2013 Workflow you might experience several problems related to Message Broker Service. Issues related to broker In SharePoint are manifested through workflow deployment issues. For example, if you try to deploy the workflow...
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Due the fact that Windows Azure Workflow (Workflow Manager) is designed to run in the cloud, which is multitenant focused architecture, the host of workflow (Workflow Manager) must fulfill several security requirements. One of used approaches is so called “Trusted Surface”. This means that subset of...
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After successful installation of Windows Azure Workflow, the IIS will contain a new site which is setup to host workflow management engine (Workflow Host Manager). When you open IIS Manager (inetmgr) you will notice Workflow Management Site. This site has by default HTTP and HTTPS bindings enabled. That...