SharePoint Designer and workflows in SP2013 Vesa Juvonen Principal

SharePoint Designer and workflows in SP2013 Vesa Juvonen Principal Consultant Microsoft 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

SharePoint Designer in SP2013 Key investments are in workflow management New workflow configuration New 2013 workflow model with Workflow Manager Easy and visual workflow designing directly in SharePoint Designer Support for example for copy-paste operations in workflow designing ”Design” and ”split view” option removed from SPD 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Workflow Manager in SharePoint 2013 Workflow now treated as a service Moved to Workflow Manager Doesn’t have to run in the SharePoint farm Can still runs on SharePoint WFE / App servers Harnesses the latest workflow technology from Microsoft SharePoint deployment drives where workflow runs On-Prem: Workflow Manager Hosted: Windows Azure Workflow Service Improves stability, scalability & transparency 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Workflow Manager in SharePoint 2013 Azure Access Control Visual Studio Solution s Content Apps Events WF3 Host OAuth2 SharePoint OM SharePoint Designer Workflow Services Manager Deployment Messaging Instances Interop Azure Workflow Service Application Proxy 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. REST Calls Events Azure Workflow Azure Workflow Azure ServiceBus

Windows Azure Worfklow requirements The following additional Software Requirements Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 x64 or newer SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Express) or SQL Server 2012 .NET Framework 4.5 IIS IIS ASP.NET IIS Management Service IIS Windows Authentication Windows Identity Foundation 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. requirements must be met before you can run Configuration Wizard to configure Workflow and Service Bus: SQL Server or SQL Server Express instance TCP/IP connections and named pipes must be configured in SQL Server. Windows Firewall must be enabled Ports 4446 and 5112 must be available. Internet Protocol 4 (IPv4). (Workflow and Service Bus do not work correctly in pure IPv6 environments.)

SharePoint Workflow (2013) Improvements Introducing “Stages” Mitigates SharePoint Designer’s lack of loop support Provides functionality of “state machine” workflows in WF 3.5 Declarative workflows have loops Loop # times / with condition / with expression Declarative workflows can call REST/SOAP services 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Workflows in SharePoint Designer with Visio 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

SharePoint Designer & Workflows Demo 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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