Classic ASP Session Variables Lost on Windows Server 2008 R2 / IIS 7

Question

We transferred our existing website which is running on a Server 2003 machine using iis6 and coded with classic asp to a Server 2008 64 bit machine using iis7 and classic asp. The only changes to the pages were for our calls to a Universe db, which need a new connection string . We tested all the pages within the department running 4-5 users and all went well. When we made it live for everyone (between 40 and 100 users) users were losing their session variables some immediately and others after 3 minutes.

Is there a setting in iis7 that could be throttling the amout of memory allotted for session variables? Or does anyone have any other ideas as to what may be happening. Thank you.

Answer 1

I can't test it here and now, but if I remember correctly you have to give the asp application it's own application pool (see the appropriate section in the IIS settings).