I have pending requests that I am unable to approve in the portal. This seems to happen when our SQL cluster has issues and needs to be rebooted. Even after normal operation, other requests can be processed, even the same kind of requests, but the original ones still fail. When i try to approve or reject, the event logs show this: FIM Unable to retrieve a workflow instance with the specified identifier. How can i remove these request from the portal?Opper....

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times out. then i get this in the event log: Requestor: urn:uuid:7e49a685-274f-48f7-b7bc-7c314dfac45d Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Service: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.CreateRequest(CreateRequestDispatchParameter dispatchParameter) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.CreateRequest(UniqueIdentifier requestor, UniqueIdentifier targetIdentifier, OperationType operation, String businessJustification, List`1 requestParameters, CultureInfo locale, Boolean isChildRequest, Guid cause, Boolean doEvaluation, Nullable`1 serviceId, Nullable`1 servicePartitionId, Boolean maintenanceMode, String synchronizationSequenceIdentifier) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.CreateRequest(UniqueIdentifier requestor, UniqueIdentifier targetIdentifier, OperationType operation, String businessJustification, List`1 requestParameters, CultureInfo locale, Boolean isChildRequest, Guid cause, Boolean doEvaluation, String synchronizationSequenceIdentifier) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManagementService.Delete(Message request)Opper....

Opper, have you ever figured this out? I am having this same problem with two requests only that must have happened during some sort of SQL hiccup.

Ok....Paul's answer worked for me, but only after I got denied the first time. I had to create an MPR which allowed administrators to delete approvals.

I had the same problem I posted in this thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/ilm2/thread/83eb32d3-8fe8-49db-b9ba-ce090eb89762 My solution was to have the originator cancel the request

I've had a similar problem where the request cannot be responded too. I'd be cautious on just deleting the approval object since wouldn't that leave a hole in your audit? It seems safer to get the request cancelled so there is no doubt.----- http://jeftek.com