Microsoft.Workflow.Client.AuthenticationException: Authentication Failed

Question

Hi Team,

i am getting this error since today ..

When am publishing a work flow on sharepoint online, authentication errors are blocking my deployment. Am the administrator of that account. 

Am able to see multiple questions posted on the community regarding the same. 

Tried to publish a very plain work flow to populate a message, even this doesn't work. 

Microsoft.Workflow.Client.AuthenticationException: Authentication Failed. Valid credentials must be provided for one of the following protocols: Bearer. HTTP headers received from the server - ActivityId: b8f0e923-98de-40de-bb70-79e0197c848e. NodeId: WFFE_IN_2. Scope: /spo. WWW-Authenticate: Bearer realm="a2b6f772-f7c4-484d-b9a6-1d76301f139f", client_id="00000005-0000-0000-c000-000000000000", trusted_issuers="00000001-0000-0000-c000-000000000000@a2b6f772-f7c4-484d-b9a6-1d76301f139f", scope="/spo

Error were found when compliing the workflow.the worklfow flies were saved but cannot be run

can you please help me

Answer 1

Hi Admin4,

This issue was posted to the Service Health Dashboard (SHD) as incident SP99525 starting at 4/24/2017 2:49:55 AM (UTC). The user experience of this incident is: Administrators may be unable to publish workflows from SharePoint Designer. Tenant administrators can view current information and updates on SHD at the link here:

https://portal.office.com/admin/default.aspx#@/ServiceStatus/ServiceStatusHistory.aspx

For affected customers to easily identify the information here, this thread will be closed.

​We will update to the primary thread below once the issue is resolved or you can obtain the most recent information from SHD.

All of my SharePoint 2013 workflows fail some sort of “Authentication Exception” in SharePoint Designer

If you are experiencing a similar issue and do not see an SHD post, please let us know by sharing your tenant information via Private Message (PM).

Best Regards,

Rodney