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First, I'd recommend picking up the book <a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1430227214" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0</a> and working through the tutorials (if you haven't yet). While it's not perfect, it covers many of the important topics. For a long-running process you're almost certainly going to want to implement persistence. Otherwise if your server goes down, running workflows disappear. Also consider hosting under IIS. Subscribe to <a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/theproblemsolver/default.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Problem Solver</a> and check out <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/19676/maurice">his answers on SO</a>. He also has an <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/dd733248" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Introduction to WF 4 video series</a>. There are several videos by others on <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Channel 9</a>, too. <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee264171.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">State Machine</a> doesn't come out of the box; it's a separate download. It's not required, though - you could use Sequential, Flowchart, or a combination to achieve what you want. Be prepared to write custom activities. (See the Channel 9 videos, especially Leon Welicki's.) You'll have to implement security, locking, worklists, etc. if those are part of your requirements. WF is not a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_modeling" rel="nofollow noreferrer">BPM</a> system out of the box. Finally, don't be intimidated. This is all doable, and WF 4 is a well-thought-out framework. Just be prepared to spend considerable time learning and implementing this.
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