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Workflow Evolution For SharePoint 2013 Alan Richards

SharePoint Saturday UK - Workflow Evolution

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Slide deck from SharePoint Saturday UK event in December 2012. The deck covers the new Workflow Manager and its configuration

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Workflow Evolution For SharePoint 2013

Alan Richards

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About Me

Worked in the education sector for over 17 years

Speaker / Blogger

SharePoint MVP

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Agenda

What's New

Configuration

Demo ?

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What's New

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Expressive SharePoint Designer 2013 can do more

Connected Cloud ready Uses SharePoint app model

Authorisation

Unbounded onPrem In the cloud Scalable

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Expressive Stages & Transitions

Stages carry out a function Transition to stages

Looping Loop n times or with condition

Start classic workflow Visual Designer (Requires Visio Professional 2013)

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Connected

Cloud ready Runs onPrem or in SharePoint online

REST web services External Data

Web services JSON

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Connected SP2010 – Workflows ran as the initiator or as

publisher (Impersonation step) SharePoint 2013 - Workflows are apps

Workflows have an identity Read/write to site App/User combination by default for permissions Use an App Step to use Workflow as app for

permission to a location the user does not have permission for

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Unbounded

Loosely coupled Runs a separate server

Workflow Manager Manageable & scalable

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Configuration

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Workflow Manager Downloadable product

Install with SharePoint

Install separate to SharePoint

Powershell command to connect the two together

Workflow client Installed to SharePoint server if Workflow manager on separate server

Service Bus Azure service now used onPrem

Manages communication

Uses oAuth for communication http or https

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Collocated

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Federated

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Topology is your choice Install on same server as SharePoint

Install on standalone Server (Install workflow client to SharePoint server)

Scale as necessary First workflow server creates the farm

Add servers to workflow farm

Load balance

http or https communication

PowerShell connects it all together

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Summary Expressive

Better flow control with stages & transitions

Visual Designer

Connected

Cloud ready

REST web services

JSON

Unbounded

Loosely coupled with SharePoint

Manage and scale independent of SharePoint

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