{"id":763,"date":"2019-07-19T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apcdynamics.com\/articles\/?p=763"},"modified":"2019-07-19T15:21:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:21:16","slug":"why-the-idle-client-timeout-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apcdynamics.com\/articles\/why-the-idle-client-timeout-wont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Idle Client Timeout Won&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a friendly reminder (or reminder for myself) that in order to get the Idle Client Time to work properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make sure you change the <strong>Keep Alive Interval <\/strong>to something greater than <strong>Idle Client Timeout. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"861\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apcdynamics.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apcdynamics.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image.png 861w, https:\/\/www.apcdynamics.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/www.apcdynamics.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image-768x380.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 861px) 100vw, 861px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you set the Idle Client Timeout to something LESS THAN Keep Alive Interval, the client will <strong>not disconnect automatically if they&#8217;re idle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Default<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you install Dynamics 365 Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV), this setting will be defaulted to 2 minutes. 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