Hi All,What will be the idle logout time for any sharepoint application how to set that.Thanks Inadvance,Shiv

Could you tell what application are you working in? Anatoly Vilchinsky Starwind Software Developer

By idle logout, I think you mean authentication timeout and IE prompt for user name and password if you try to connect to the SharePoint application again. Suppose Windows integrated authentication (NTLM) is configured for your SharePoint application. NTLM rely on the HTTP Keep alive feature to maintain authenticated connection with IIS. You can refer to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/44ebc761-ac76-4b44-8894-551c9315af6c.mspx?mfr=true on how to set the connection timeout in IIS. At the same time, IE also set the Keep-alive timeout value at client side. The lower value of the IE and IIS takes effect. For how to set the IE keep alive timeout value, please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813827. However, IE usually automatically sign you into the SharePoint web application with the windows account you currently use, this may make it seems that SharePoint application never had idle time out in some situation. For details about this situation, please refer to this article http://support.microsoft.com/?id=258063. If you use Form base authentication in SharePoint, you can set the authentication timeout in web.config or machine.config file, for detail, please refer to the Where can the time-out value of the forms authentication cookie and forms authentication ticket be set? section in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910443.

Does anyone have the instructions for IIS7 (Server 2008)?