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
Log on to the OWA server.
Open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
Select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSEx-changeWeb\OWA registry key.
Choose New→ DWORD Value from the Edit menu.
Name the new value PublicClientTimeout.
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.
Choose New→ DWORD Value from the Edit menu.
Name the new value TrustedClientTimeout.
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 of0to43200.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\" ...