Deploying SharePoint 2016: Best Practices for Installing, Configuring, and Maintaining SharePoint Server 2016

© Vlad Catrinescu and Trevor Seward 2016

Vlad Catrinescu and Trevor Seward, Deploying SharePoint 2016, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1999-7_10

10. Workflow Manager

Vlad Catrinescu¹  and Trevor Seward²

(1)Greenfield Park, Québec, Canada

(2)Sultan, Washington, USA

Workflow Manager is an external system to SharePoint Server, but is leveraged for advanced workflows created through SharePoint Designer 2013 or Visual Studio. Workflow Manager is designed to run in a separate Workflow Manager “farm,” although it can be colocated on SharePoint.

Initial Setup

In our topology design, Workflow Manager 1.0 will be installed on LSWFM01, LSWFM02, and LSWFM03 for a highly available farm. Workflow Manager supports an architecture of one or three servers in a Workflow Manager farm. ...