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5 years ago
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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'...
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    5 years ago

    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

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FarhanAhmed
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5 years ago

Do you have any company-wide internet policy which is signing you out from the browser? I am not sure if PBI Report Server can sign you out from active connections even unattended sessions can remain for hours/days.

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5 years ago

I don't think to have any Internet policy as you say, anyway I can test it. Maybe it's that Power BI Report Server evaluate version (like mine) allows just an hour as user session length? Even if it's true, I didn't read it anywhere, so I don't think. 

It's too weird session lasts an hour and there are many configuration files but any of these is set to an hour.