Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.WebServices.exe
Summary
Active Directory Web Services for PowerShell ADWS queries
Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.WebServices.exe is the 2814th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 117 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\ADWS and it is most often launched by services.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\ADWS100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- d40478a82bb2993f39a3ed6066cd0599be37ff9a0898636a680926fe145c64d644.44%
- 798b3e4e019a392616cbd16e3cfc47ac1b3320cddd956bfd0b1e23edb0fc378630.77%
- d0526a01369da4f4c5107fe24535ef218b4f69e32db653534c62ee7dfb72269411.11%
- 7f704c33cd27c6b4ff821d83a43eb679075e3b4590be02de8b705f06b75088ac7.69%
- 2ba73582b4334aeda469b97d528c24ccb2392fd189524198017d59df4c4f65045.98%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- lodctr.exe100%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.