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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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8.10. Changing OWA 2003 Session Timeouts

Problem

You want to adjust the time out for OWA 2003 user's session.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Log on to the OWA server.

  2. Open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe).

  3. Select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSEx-changeWeb\OWA registry key.

  4. Choose New DWORD Value from the Edit menu.

  5. Name the new value PublicClientTimeout.

  6. Double-click PublicClientTimeout and set its value to the number of minutes after which you want a logon session from a public client to time out. The default value is 15 minutes, but you can assign any value between 0 and 43,200 minutes.

  7. Choose New DWORD Value from the Edit menu.

  8. Name the new value TrustedClientTimeout.

  9. Double-click TrustedClientTimeout and set its value to the number of minutes after which you want a logon session from a trusted client to time out. The default value is 1440, with a permissible range of 0 to 43200.

  10. Stop and restart the WWW publishing service.

Using a command-line interface

The following commands set the timeout to 30 minutes:
> reg add HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeWeb\OWA 
   /t REG_DWORD /v "PublicClientTimeout" /d 30
> reg add HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeWeb\OWA 
   /t REG_DWORD /v "TrustedClientTimeout" /d 30
> net stop w3svc
> net start w3svc

Using VBScript

' This code sets the public and private machine timeouts for OWA 2003 ' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------ strOWA = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeWeb\OWA\" ...
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