SharePoint Troubleshooting: The context has expired and can no longer be used

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Issue

problem with wiki site collection we get the following error message. The context has expired and can no longer be used. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80090317)

This message is displayed to everyone, Doing an iisreset would get the site working but that will last for a day at the most.

Solutions

The issue could be of many reasons here in the Article I am providing the solutions for the most common.

Solution 1

Do Recycle AppPool\IISreset to resolve the issue temporarily.

Solution 2

Ensure that the below settings are configured correctly.

  1. Select Time zone is configured properly on web application General settings.

Application Management =>Web Applications =>Manage web applications=>select the Web Application => General Settings

  1. Ensure that the Date and Time options on your server and time zone is configured correctly.

Solution 3

Disable/ Increase the “Web page Security validation” in general settings for SharePoint web application.

Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage Web Application -> Select Web application -> on the ribbon select “General settings” -> Off the Security validation/Increase security validation expire time.