From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
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Workflow automation in SharePoint 2010
From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
Workflow automation in SharePoint 2010
We're back in our SharePoint site, so I can talk you for just a couple of minutes about some new features in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010. Microsoft SharePoint has supported workflows ever since SharePoint Portal Server 2003. But the 2003 versions of SharePoint required that you use other tools to create workflows, tools like Microsoft BizTalk Server, or you had to talk to a developer, have them create some custom code for you. Or if you had the patience and the skills, you could learn Visual Studio yourself to create code. So SharePoint workflows really took off for the first time in a big way with the addition of SharePoint Designer for SharePoint 2007. SharePoint Designer replaced a tool called FrontPage that had been used in earlier versions of Office, but which wasn't a great tool to use at all for orchestration or for workflows. So SharePoint Designer, the replacement for FrontPage, really made it easy to start working with workflows. Which SharePoint Designer…