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Many people make the mistake of using Load Balancers without realizing this breaks session management.<br />
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Make sure your IP never changes (disable Load Balancers if in use + retest).
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I have no load balancers, the IP is the same. &nbsp;It's a small portal site used by about 5 people at any given time. <br><br>...maybe the worker process is recycling too frequently? &nbsp;Would that cause this?
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Ron Malmstead

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<div><div class="content wysiwyg-content fr-view"><p>My session is lost at about 30 minutes, without a page request in between.<br>This is a portal application, so I don't want to have to setup another SQL instance for a &nbsp;Session server, as the number of users is pretty low at any given moment. &nbsp;I only need it to read some basic permissions and roles settings that are saved in the Session at login.&nbsp; I don't want to make calls to the db every time the page is loaded.<br><br>Not sure if this is a problem specific to Azure, IIS, or my web.config.<br>Below is my web config session portion.<br><br></p><pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-10-29223489-1"><span>&lt;sessionState mode="InProc" cookieName="Application_SessionId" timeout="99999"&gt;&lt;/sessionState&gt;</span>
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My session is lost at about 30 minutes, without a page request in between.
This is a portal application, so I don't want to have to setup another SQL instance for a  Session server, as the number of users is pretty low at any given moment.  I only need it to read some basic permissions and roles settings that are saved in the Session at login.  I don't want to make calls to the db every time the page is loaded.
Not sure if this is a problem specific to Azure, IIS, or my web.config.
Below is my web config session portion.
<sessionState mode="InProc" cookieName="Application_SessionId" timeout="99999"></sessionState>

Web Application on Azure - Session state will not persist.  Why?

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