Unlock Activity on Workflow taking LongtimeIssue <!-- div.margin{ padding: 10px 40px 40px 30px; } table.tocTable{ border: 1px solid; border-color:#E0E0E0; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); padding-top: .6em; padding-bottom: .6em; padding-left: .9em; padding-right: .6em; } table.noteTable{ border:1px solid; border-color:#E0E0E0; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); width: 100%; border-spacing:2; } table.internaltable { white-space:nowrap; text-align:left; border-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:14px; width: 85%; } table.internaltable th { border-width: 1px; padding: 5px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); } table.internaltable td { border-width: 1px; padding: 5px; border-style: solid; border-color: #E0E0E0; color: #000000; } table tr td { padding: 15px; } .title { color: #D1232B; font-weight:normal; font-size:28px; } h1{ color: #D1232B; font-weight:normal; font-size:21px; margin-bottom:-5px } h2{ color: #646464; font-weight:bold; font-size:18px; } h3{ color: #000000; font-weight:BOLD; font-size:16px; text-decoration:underline; } h4{ color: #646464; font-weight:BOLD; font-size:15px; text-decoration:; } h5{ color: #000000; font-weight:BOLD; font-size:13px; text-decoration:; } h6{ color: #000000; font-weight:BOLD; font-size:14px; text-decoration:; } hr{ border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #cccccc; } ul { list-style: disc outside none; margin-left: 0; } li { padding-left: 1em; } --> Overview Unlock Activity on Workflow taking Longtime. Issue If below activities are placed between Lock and Unlock activity block, unlock activity tales 60 seconds to complete. Activities which involve SSH ProbeActivities which have Powershell Scripts Reason PowerShell/SSH Probes are considered a "wait" activity because the PowerShell goes off the node and the workflow goes to sleep. Therefore when the workflow starts up again it's in a different thread which is not permitted to unlock. Additional Information As per below documentation , below placing below activities between Lock and Unlock Block, will cause the workflow to wait. This may cause the Unlock activity to be unable to acquire the lock to release it and instead take 60 seconds to complete. Restricted wait activities include: Approval activitiesTask activitiesTimer activitiesWait for condition activityWait for WF Event activity https://docs.servicenow.com/csh?topicname=r_LockActivity.html&version=latest