Installing Workflow Manager Offline

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Microsoft has introduced new Workflow engine and concept with SharePoint 2013 called Workflow Manager.

The SharePoint 2013 Workflow platform uses the new Workflow Manager service. Workflow Manager is built on top of Windows Workflow Foundation. Windows Workflow Foundation is part of the .NET Framework 4.5.

Workflow Manager is a separate download and must be configured to communicate with the SharePoint Server 2013 farm.

In several cases, your environment is secured but not accessing the internet and you want to install the workflow manager. The following steps explain how to do that so you can install Workflow Manager offline to server(s) not connected to the internet.

  • Download the Web Platform Installer

http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/F/F/CFF3A0B8-99D4-41A2-AE1A-496C08BEB904/WebPlatformInstaller_amd64_en-US.msi and install it on a machine with internet access

  • Run the following commands as administrator from the command prompt on the machine with internet access to download Service Bus, Workflow Client and Workflow Manager Refresh for offline

Webpicmd /offline /Products:ServiceBus /Path:E:\ServiceBus

Webpicmd /offline /Products:WorkflowClient /Path:E:\WorkflowClient

Webpicmd /offline /Products:WorkflowManagerRefresh /Path:E:\WorkflowManagerRefresh

Note: modify E:\ with the path you would like to download to

  • On the machine with internet access, download the Cumulative Update for Service Bus 1.0 from

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36794

  • Copy the downloaded file from Step 1, 2 and 3 to the server(s) where you will install the Workflow Manager
  • On each server where you will install Workflow Manager run and install the following
  • Open command prompt as administrator and run the following:

WebpiCmd.exe /Install /Products:ServiceBus /XML:E:\ServiceBus\feeds\latest\webproductlist.xml

  • Manually install the file you downloaded from step 3
  • Open command prompt as administrator and run the following:

WebpiCmd.exe /Install /Products:WorkflowClient /XML:E:\WorkflowClient\feeds\latest\webproductlist.xml

  • Open command prompt as administrator and run the following:

WebpiCmd.exe /Install /Products:WorkflowManagerRefresh /XML:E:\WorkflowManagerRefresh\feeds\latest\webproductlist.xml

Note: modify E:\ with the path where files you copied from previous steps exist.

The next step is to configure the Workflow Manager Farm and connect it with SharePoint. To do so check the following article from MSDN:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj193510(v=azure.10).aspx