Question: >> How can I deploy SPD Workflow from Dev to prod Answer: Unfortunatelly, SharePoint designer workflows are not portable by default. There are several OOB activities that come with SharePoint itself that are used by SharePoint Designer Workflow. These activities when serialized to XOML (the temporary file is generated by SPD when you create new WorkFlow), store GUIDS to lists itself instead of ‘pointers’ to list, or any other indirection or that matter. And here is th...

SharePoint provides you two approaches to design and deploy WorkFlows - via SharePoint Designer(SPD) and using Visual Studio. But you should be aware that deployment of WorkFlows has some differences in the security model that might cause you permissions issues. SharePoint has its own security model to resolve the user's windows identity for all activities. It uses either IIS application pool user or the WSS Timer user for scheduled tasks. Such behavior is the same for both Visual Studio and ...