Enabling Sessions

How to enable sessions in a SharePoint Web Application:

Open the web.config file of your web application and do the following:

Locate the <modules> section, and just below <remove name="Session" />, add a new element:

 <add name="Session" type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule" preCondition="" />

Then, locate the <pages> element and enable session state:

    <pages enableSessionState="true" ...

Enable or disable session state across the entire farm


On the taskbar, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.
In the top navigation bar, click the Application Management tab.
On the Application Management page, in the Office SharePoint Servers Shared Services section, click Configure session state.
On the Configure Session State page, in the Enable Session State section, select the Enable Session State check box to enable session state for the farm.
To specify the duration of sessions, in the Timeout section, enter a number (in minutes) in the Session should be timed out after (minutes) box. The default is 60 minutes.
Click OK to save the session state configuration.