I find many of the Sysinternals tools invaluable when it comes to looking after even a bunch of test machines in a lab, or two, or three. I spotted last week that a few of the tools have been given a brush up, so head over to:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2013/08/01/autoruns-v11-70-bginfo-v4-20-disk2vhd-v1-...
Process Explorer is a superb tool when it comes to watching what various Enterprise Vault server based processes are loading which DLL's from which folders when they're performing operations. If you've never used the tools before head over to take a look.
