Asp.net Application State Expiration Issue - asp.net

I am having an issue with the data in the Application object expiring within 1 minute. I need the data in this object to persist at least 15 - 20 minutes after the last user of the web application leaves. This used to work fine, but I have had this problem ever since my system admin moved from physical hardware to a VM. There must be some configuration that we are missing that is causing this problem.
The setup is IIS 7.5 on Windows 2008 R2. My web application is using the the defaultAppPool with ASP 4.0 classic. I checked the settings at it is using 1740 minutes for recycling, so I am lost as to what else could cause this problem.
Thanks for your help and time in advance.

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We have an application (ASP Dot Net , Framework 4.0) in production which is deployed on IIS 7.5 window server 2012. Every day this application gets around 4000 requests, but the problem we are facing for the last couple of days is that some of the users complain their session gets expired. We have checked the application and don't see any error that can get the session expired. We've checked the IIS setting and pool setting, but we don't see any reason fair enough to sort out the issue.
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Probably I need to give more detail that helps you resolve my issue.
We work in professional organisation where we run many application on IIS for our clients. The issue we receiving is coming on one of the same application we build for our new client and deployed on IIS 8.0 server 2012.
In web config of our application time out is for one hour and further we make sure that we shouldn't route the user to session expire page if any other error comes. Now after making these changes we are pretty sure that issue should not be due to application configuration or due to the structure of it.
Now we are concern about the IIS. The different thing this time is we are using IIS 8.0 not IIS 7.5 which we are using on our all different servers for different applications.
Some of the IIS configuration you might be interested
we have dedicated pool for the application further pool is configured 2.0 because application is on the framework 3.5.
maximum worker process = 1
Pool recycle in 28 hours
Let me know if you could guide me anything specifically if that is related to IIS 8.0 because we are thinking of reverting back to 7.5, its our production application and clients are keep complaining about it.
The Life time of a session of a user is set by the developer / yourself. So you have privilege to set the time a user session time out at the desired time. Here is the format of th declaration in the web.config.
<sessionState mode="Off|InProc|StateServer|SQLServer"
cookieless="true|false"
timeout="number of minutes"
stateConnectionString="tcpip=server:port"
sqlConnectionString="sql connection string"
stateNetworkTimeout="number of seconds"/>
You can set the creation of cookies to true or false
Decide / dictate where the session information needs to be stored(server, database..)
These are some of the links that can help.
MSDN
MSDN2
I guess, you might have allocated the default application pool for this application in the IIS and the same application pool might have been shared among other applications too.
Step1: You should allocate separate application pool for each site in the IIS.
Step2: in application pool --> advanced settings --> Change the maximum worker process count to 1
If the above solution is not working, better try the solution which is given in https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781036(WS.10).aspx
Hope this helps.

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I have an asp.net app on IIS 7. It is 'pre-compiled', but I understand that IIS must still compile the assemblies the first time they're run.
Here is the problem--After I publish and deploy the application, I log in, and (as expected) it takes about 30 seconds to see the login page. Then I visit every page so that they are compiled (I have used the 'individual file for each page' or whatever option).
So far so good.
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It's slow again the next day because IIS shuts down apps when they are inactive for some time.
The solution is "Application Initialization". This is built-in in IIS 8 and available out-of-band as a module for IIS 7.5:
http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/whats-new-in-iis-8/iis-80-application-initialization
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Since the move, I at random get a situation where the application hangs. The request queue rockets and then I get 503 errors. If the application pool is recycled, then the error goes away till the next time it occurs.
There are no entries in the event logs relating to it except that it notes when the application pool took to long to shut down during the recycle process. I have reporting in my .net application that logs to a DB and sends me errors but it sends me nothing when this application is hanging.
What tools can I use to diagnose the problem and figure out what is causing it?
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Second if your application demands to access disk resources, also you should the relevant security context for running the application pool in the 'Identity' property. The identity should access all the directories that your application wants to change or list.
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Please also check IIS logs for application pool restarts. I assume that your session state is stored in memory (default) so it will be cleared when application pool restarts. You might also want to try ASP.NET Performance Counters to check for it
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fxk122b4.aspx
Counter name is Worker Process Restarts

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