Saturday, October 4, 2014

SharePoint 2010 workflow error – “Due to heavy load, the latest workflow operation has been queued”

While working with custom workflows in SharePoint 2010, I got error in workflow as “Due to heavy load, the latest workflow operation has been queued”. After refreshing the page, most of the times error may fixed and workflow completed as usual. Sometimes I used to stuck on the workflow and I can see only the non-reactive screen with the error. I didn’t event fix the error after resetting the workflow and IIS Manager. After digging for the solution finally I got a fix for the error by updating the Workflow Postpone threshold in farm config manager by using following PowerShell commands,

Set-SpFarmConfig -WorkflowPostponeThreshold 30

By running the command, workflow threshold will be increased from 15 to 30

get-sptimerjob | ?{$_.name -like "job-workflow"} | set-sptimerjob -schedule "every 1 minutes between 0 and 59"



By running this command frequency of execution for SP timer job, job-workflow will be increased to every minute. After running the commands, if workflow don’t have any issues will be completed as expected.

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