How do you change session timeout in IIS 8.5?

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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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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