When I attempt to set up appfabric to link up to my application and monitor and track and tract it, I get an error stating
“Workflow persistence is not functional
Cybermaxs basically has the correct answer, with one minor caveat in my experience: You might need to do an iisreset before things will work (that is, click win + R, and enter iisreset, or just run iisreset in a command line window).
As a bonus, what follows is the equivalent of what Cybermaxs included, only from Windows 8. Search for "Turn windows features on or off" to open this window: