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Authentication timeout is still far too low.
The authentication timeout for this network has been increased, but it's still woefully low. The constant reauth is a serious disincentive to use. Neither the former Yammer based Office 365 network, ...
Hi AnnaChu, when will this be increased, I'm getting very tired of having to sing in multiple times every day, despite having the community open in a Chrome pinned tab all day.
- AnnaChu
Microsoft
This was increased a number of weeks ago. It has been set to 24 hours. I am assuming you're using the same browser each time you log in?
- Hi Anna, Yes I use Chrome as my primary browser and have the community open in a pinned tab all day long, just like I do for a selection of other systems I login to such as my Office 365, and it logs me out approximately every 4 hours. I've cleaned my cache, cookies, history... the lot, several times. Also happens on my laptop. Getting rather annoying. It was annoying enough that my Office 365 portal would log out every 8 hours, because I generally work 14 hour days. At least I was able to run a powershell script to prevent log outs within my office.
- AnnaChu
Hi Jason Rhodes sorry to hear this is your current experience. We will look into this for you and see if the previous settings were reverted. We definitely implemented the 24 hour time out so will find out why this is happening for you.
