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I'm in IIS 8.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 and I want to see what the session timeout is.

Under "Feature view", I see a session category so I open that up. Session state is set to in-process. Further down the window I see options to set timeouts but they are for cookies. I looked in the application pool and I saw an idle timeout set to 20 minutes: is this the session timeout? I'm used to IIS 7 where you click on the "ASP" feature and set it in there.

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Yes, that is the session timeout setting in the "Session State" section.

Where to find the Session State settings

Where the timeout setting is

You can also control it programatically in the "web.config" file. Please see How to set session timeout in web.config. IIS Manager will change that for you with your current method.

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  • when you say "Yes" are your referring to the setting I found in the application pool setting, outside of the features view? – Roto Aug 26 '16 at 15:12
  • @Roto I added some pictures to hopefully make it clear. It is the "Time-out (in minutes)" setting, which has the (default) value of 20 in the picture. – Andrew Morton Aug 26 '16 at 17:11
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In IIS, open a list of your sites and select one. Then select "ASP" in the site properties under the "IIS" entry

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Now just change the voice about "TimeOut", the time you prefer and you're done! enter image description here

Finally check your Application Pool's idle timeout that application pool idle timeout too matches your session timeout.

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