About Sharepoint Idle session

Question

My company portal site uses single sign on, so If I enable sharepoint Idle session and when the session expires will the single sign on users get automatically sign in??

If you manually sign out and you try to sign in again to the portal site, you can use the portal site by simply selecting a user. (PW not required)

But what happen If I enabled sharepoint Idle session does the password required for the users to sign in for single sign -on users??

Answer 1

Hi @Kuronuma,

Thank you for posting in this community.

The SharePoint Idle session policy is that when a user reaches the idle timeout session you've set, they'll get a notification that they're about to be signed out. But users who get single sign-on (SSO) into the web app from the device joined account will not sign out. They are staying logged in even if the session expires.

If it's just single sign-on users, they won’t be automatically signed back in after the session expires.

Reference: Details about idle session timeout.

Also clarify what a device joined account is:

When a user signs in to SharePoint or other Microsoft 365 services from a domain-joined device, their account is considered a device-joined account. For more information you can refer to this article: IT Admins - SharePoint and OneDrive unmanaged device access controls.If SharePoint Idle session is turned on, then users who exceed the session period are logged out and need a password to log in if they log back in.

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