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I've installed and configured Workflow Manager 1.0 +CU3 in a standalone SharePoint 2013 farm patched to SP2 Feb2015CU.

In order to eliminate as many issues as possible, I've created a very simple SharePoint Designer workflow with 1 stage. The only action it performs is logging a message to the workflow history list.

I have a 2013 workflow associated to a list and allow it to be manually started. When I manually start it, it stays in a 'Starting' state forever.

I see the following exception being logged immediately after application authentication when I turn on verbose ULS logging:

Workflow instance 0d39e99d-b7a3-4827-af42-2c39b4c0461a is in retry state but GetRetryMessage threw exception: System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary. at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.FabricWorkflowInstanceProvider.GetRetryMessage(WorkflowInstance instance) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.FabricWorkflowInstanceProvider.GetInstance(Guid instanceId)

There were no errors during the installation/configuration of either Service Bus or Workflow Manager. I have followed the troubleshooting guides and the only thing I can see is I do get an untrusted certificate error when I browse to the :12290 address for the workflowhosturi although that is NOT the uri I used when registering the service.

Note: when I performed the Register-SPWorkflowService cmdlet this is what I entered:

Register-SPWorkflowService -SPSite 'http://mySiteCollehost/mysite' -WorkflowHostUri 'http://FQDNOfServer:12291' -AllowOauthHttp -Force

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  • have you tried to add that certificate into the SharePoint central admin. central admin > securtiy > manage trust> on this page upload the certificate( workflow)
    – Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦
    Feb 26, 2016 at 16:34
  • What certificate? For the FQDN of server? During installation/configuration I opted for the Auto-Generate of the outbound signing certificates for both Service Bus and Workflow Manager which as I understand it generates several certificates in the certificate store. Are you saying I should add one of THOSE to the Manage Trusts?
    – Joanne Klein
    Feb 26, 2016 at 17:28
  • On the workflow manager server, if you go to IIS and Workflow manager site and click on bindings...edit the https and view the certificate, copy that one and add into sharepoint
    – Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦
    Feb 26, 2016 at 18:32
  • Workflow Manager is installed on the SharePoint server. (This is a single server SharePoint farm) When I go to IIS, there is no certificate associated with the https workflow site (port 12290). I assumed when I selected the option to auto-generate the signing certificate during configuration that it would make that association automatically. Is this not correct?
    – Joanne Klein
    Feb 26, 2016 at 19:38
  • yes, it should be. i think that is your problem...i would uninstall and reinstall the wf manager
    – Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦
    Feb 26, 2016 at 19:40

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Getting SharePoint Hosted Apps with Workflows to work with self-signed wildcard certificates http://www.xenox.net/2015/03/25/getting-sharepoint-hosted-apps-with-workflows-to-work-with-self-signed-wildcard-certificates/

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