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How to edit and stretch user session
Hi everybody,
I am in trouble with user session length in Power BI Report Server. I found out it lasts exactly 1 hour and I need to change it because it's too short to me.
Anyway, even if it's a basic configuration, I was not able to reach it. I read many articles, as https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/report-server/rsreportserver-config-configuration-file?view=sql-server-ver15 or https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/tools/server-properties-advanced-page-reporting-services?view=sql-server-ver15 and they looked proper to me but here I didn't find anything useful: I tried to edit some properties, but anything worked (session user was still 1 hour) and I haven't even found any option which was set to 1 hour (or 60 minutes or 3600 seconds).
I think it shouldn't be difficult, but I am not able to find it.
Please help me, it's really valuable to me.
Thanks a lot
Nick
Finally I found out the way, even if it was really casually. You need to open web.config file which is located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Report Server\PBIRS\ReportServer and there at line 13 in </authentication> parameter there's a timeout set to 60, which is the length of user session in minutes. You need to edit it and then stop and restart the Report Server through Report Server Configuration Manager.
Bye