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Increasing Web Server Timeout

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I found these instructions buried in the WHS Remote Access Technical Brief, You would use these instructions if you wanted to keep remote sessions active for longer periods of time. Due to the bandwidth limitations in AU, file downloads of 50mb can take over 20 min on slow connections (Because the file is uploaded from your house).

For the instructions,

To increase the Remote Access time-out parameter

1. Use mstsc.exe to start a Remote Desktop Connection session to your home server.
2. Use a text editor, such as notepad.exe, to open C:\Inetpub\remote\web.config.
3. Locate the following line:<sessionState mode=”InProc” cookieless=”false” timeout=”20″/>
4. Replace “20″ (which represents 20 minutes) with a larger number, to allow your uploads to finish.
   Note: If you change the timeout value to more than 200 minutes, you must also change the executionTimeout value. Search for the following line <httpRuntime maxRequestLength=”2097151″ executionTimeout=”12000″/> and increase the executionTimeout value (measured in seconds) to the same or greater value than the timeout value (measured in minutes).
5. Save your change, close the file, and then log off from your Remote Desktop Connection session.
6. Use Remote Access to upload your file or files, to ensure that the new time-out parameter is sufficient to finish the upload.

Simple.