I was recently creating some SharePoint 2013 Workflows using SharePoint Designer and I noticed that all of my workflows would suddenly enter the "Suspended" state for no apparent reason.
Of course, I looked at the Workflow Tasks and I found errors such as the following:
Interestingly enough, you will find numerous articles on the web stating that this all has to do with making sure that the User Profile Service is working and having the e-mail address/Work e-mail field populated.
However, I had done all of that and it was working!! In fact, I could browse all of the various User Profiles in Central Administration and they were all there!!
So what was going on?
Well, I was using the User Profile Service with the SharePoint Active Directory Import option (under User Profile Service-->Configure Synchronization Settings).
Now, normally, this should not make any difference and the SharePoint 2013 Workflows should still just work (this is what I always use in my own development/test environments), but I thought that this might still be triggering some unusual problems in this particular environment. so I decided to switch it back over to the "SharePoint Profile Synchronization" option instead.
An unfortunate consequence of switching over the type of the User Profile Synchronization import process was that I had to go back and make sure that the User Profile Synchronization Service was started (it is not needed for the SharePoint Active Directory Import):
I also had to reconfigure my Synchronization Connections:
Finally, I had to make sure that my User Properties still retained their attribute mappings:
Of course, after I set this up, I re-tried my workflows and lo and behold my SharePoint Workflows began working without any issues!!
Of course, I looked at the Workflow Tasks and I found errors such as the following:
Interestingly enough, you will find numerous articles on the web stating that this all has to do with making sure that the User Profile Service is working and having the e-mail address/Work e-mail field populated.
However, I had done all of that and it was working!! In fact, I could browse all of the various User Profiles in Central Administration and they were all there!!
So what was going on?
Well, I was using the User Profile Service with the SharePoint Active Directory Import option (under User Profile Service-->Configure Synchronization Settings).
Now, normally, this should not make any difference and the SharePoint 2013 Workflows should still just work (this is what I always use in my own development/test environments), but I thought that this might still be triggering some unusual problems in this particular environment. so I decided to switch it back over to the "SharePoint Profile Synchronization" option instead.
An unfortunate consequence of switching over the type of the User Profile Synchronization import process was that I had to go back and make sure that the User Profile Synchronization Service was started (it is not needed for the SharePoint Active Directory Import):
I also had to reconfigure my Synchronization Connections:
Of course, after I set this up, I re-tried my workflows and lo and behold my SharePoint Workflows began working without any issues!!
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