If you are getting these 🙂
Retrying last request. Next attempt scheduled in less than one minute. Details of last request: HTTP Unauthorized to http://devVM.domain.dev/_vti_bin/client.svc/sp.utilities.utility.ResolvePrincipalInCurrentcontext
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Setting up SharePoint 2013 workflow is documented all over the internet, not all on one page though 🙂
This is how I got it all to work
Start here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/jj556245.aspx
- Follow religiously this set of videos
- Video series: Install and configure Workflow in SharePoint Server 2013
- In the config wizard Do not use default admin groups, create our own
- I used auto generated certs, seems fine.
- Allow use of http
- I registered as http not https from powershell Register-SPWorkflowService
- Once configured enable site feature ‘WorkflowServiceStore’ use powershell Enable-SPFeature WorkflowServiceStore -Url http://yoursite
- Now in the UI activate feature on your site ‘workflow can use app permissions’
- Now grant full control to workflow ‘workflow’ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj822159.aspx
- wrap any steps of your workflow which fail for prmission related stuff in an “App step”
Simple eh ?
I guess we owe this complexity to SharePoint online and Office 365 (The future don’t you know)