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Application failure. hr=0x80040101: Failed to initialize virtual machine

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Hi There, Its 12:30 AM today in Pakistan and i have to do some work with my VMware. Tried to start it in normal and Administrator mode both but WOOOWWW..... ITS CRASHING....! I am getting a very weird error message that even Google did not provide any useful stuff to resolve this issue. Below are my environment details. OS  :  Windows 8.1 Pro VM :  VMWare Workstation 11.0.0 build-2305329 Error :   Application failure. hr=0x80040101: Failed to initialize virtual machine (This is not the actual screenshot of my error but the error was exactly same with the above Red text. I forgot to take screenshot of the error message before fixing it.) I tried registering few DLLs as shared by someone in Chinese language  here  but it did not help me. So i decided to figure it out myself. Could not imagine that it would be that lucky, simple and tricky. I tried restarting VM Ware services, logging Off an On to system, restarting the machine but nothing helped me. So below

SharePoint Web Services Error : An item with the same key has already been added

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Hi There, Recently i found that none of my SharePoint 2013 application services are working. Crashing and throwing unknown multiple kind of errors in event viewer. One of the famous error that i found was below with Event ID 3. [code]WebHost failed to process a request. Sender Information: System.ServiceModel.Activation.HostedHttpRequestAsyncResult/47208365 Exception: System.ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added. at System.Runtime.AsyncResult.End[TAsyncResult](IAsyncResult result) at System.ServiceModel.Activation.HostedHttpRequestAsyncResult.End(IAsyncResult result) Process Name: w3wp Process ID: 12724 [/code] While troubleshooting i noticed that none of SharePoint Web Services are browsing and crashing with below error. I knew that it isn't any SharePoint specific error so i tried to recall the changes i have done on server. Server Error in '/925bc7e108ff47198283782382a09c0d' Application. An item with th

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Workflow.Client

This issue was really a headache for me today. In my farm of four servers i have 2 WFE and 2 APP servers (of course a DB server separately). I have configured Workflow Manager on 1 APP server and Workflow Manager Client on all of the remaining servers. Suddenly i started getting error on workflows and the GUID lead me to the below ULS logs of SharePoint. [code]07/15/2016 23:28:06.77 w3wp.exe (0x0E40) 0x2B54 SharePoint Foundation Logging Correlation Data xmnv Medium Name=Request (GET:http://mysharepointapplication:80/newsite/test/_layouts/15/Workflow.aspx?ID=20&List=%7B18957A04-11A4-4016-9404-B1D3897619EF%7D&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fmysharepointapplication%2Fit%2Fsystems%2Fsystems%2Ftest%2FLists%2FCustom%2520List%2FAllItems%2Easpx%3FInitialTabId%3DRibbon%252ERead%26VisibilityContext%3DWSSTabPersistence) da1f909d-545f-60b2-1cdd-8923ed950a7a 07/15/2016 23:28:06.77 w3wp.exe (0x0E40) 0x2B54 SharePoint Foundation