Extend Idle Timeout for Exchange Online Powershell Module

Question

Good Morning,

We are currently using Exchange online powershell module as a shortcut on my desktop.
When I launch the shortcut, it opens to a Powershell window, then I type in Connect-EXOPSSession and login, then it connects me to the Exchange Online.
Problem is that when I am running a script that takes a while to complete, the session will time out after 15 minutes.
Get-IPSSession shows the timeout is 900000 milliseconds/15 minutes.

I looked at the below article, but I am not putting in the variables in manually.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a5eae821-bed2-4cb1-8965-ff09261312c9/increase-online-powershell-module-session-time?forum=onlineservicesexchange

Is there a way to change this somewhere?
Tried Connect-EXOPSSession -UserPrincipalName (LoginName) -IdleTimeout, but that errored out.

Looks like all the variables are being run and configured from a powershell file.
that is attached to this question as a text file47492-createexopssession.txt

If I can either extend that IdleTimeout to hours or just to 0 that would be immensely helpful.

Thank You

Brian Dougherty

Answer 1

@Brian Dougherty

Based on my knowledge, IdleTimeout works for New-PSSessionOption cmdlet. You can try to use the parameter -PSSessionOption with the configuration:

New-PSSessionOption -IdleTimeout "a value in milliseconds"  

If if still doesn't work, you can use EXO V2 module and the following command to connect:

Connect-ExchangeOnline -PSSessionOption IdleTimeout <value> -UserPrincipalName <upn> -ShowProgress $true  

Please check this for more details: Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell.

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Answer 2

Just in case this helps someone

$pso = new-PSSessionOption -IdleTimeout 43200000 
Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName <upn> -PSSessionOption $pso