PowerShell™ for SharePoint® 2013 How-To

Configure the Timeout of the Session State

Scenario/Problem: You need to modify the timeout of the Session State Service.

Solution: Use the Set-SPSessionStateService cmdlet with the SessionTimeout parameter.

One of the only configuration changes you can perform on the Session State Service is changing the timeout value. When viewing the session state configuration (as explained in the previous section), you notice that the timeout defaults to one hour (01:00:00). To modify this setting, use the SessionTimeout parameter with the Set-SPSessionStateService, as shown in Listing 18.5.

Listing 18.5. Decreasing the Session Timeout to 30 Minutes

Set-SPSessionStateService -SessionTimeout 30

The SessionTimeout parameter determines the time, in minutes, ...