Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service

Question

the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service stuck at stating/stopping. I did restart the service but no use then i did delete the job and delete the service now I can't see the stating on the central admin option. Any help please.

Answer 1

Please follwoing steps:

1. Find the GUID of the problem service running in the particular server.

   Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

   Get-SPServiceInstance | Where-Object {$_.TypeName -eq 'Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service'}

2. Run following command to start it.

   Start-SPServiceInstance -identity "GUID"

3. Run the following to check the status of the service. It should now be Online.

   Get-SPServiceInstance -identity "GUID"

4. If running above command did not change the status, try following commands.

   $Var = Get-SpServiceInstance -identity "GUID"

   $Var.Unprovision()

----------------------------------- Updated Answer -----------------------------

Please check if the SharePoint Timer Service is running

If the SharePoint Timer Service from Services is stopped, although the timer service status in Central admin will be online, there will be problems with your server farm.

Because it will stop running all timer jobs (alerts, workflow, UPA synchronization, etc.)