In my last post I wandered why the component service manager was so hard to find in Vista. This appears to be a feature. The component manager is a snap-in for Microsoft Management Console (mmc). This mmc.exe application can be started directly, Vista search will also find it.
When started the tree is empty. In the file menu is the option Add/Remove snap-ins. And here is a full list of management snap-ins. Including serviced components.
The nice thing is that you can save a collection of selected snap-ins. Which results in an msc document with an appropriate icon. In the image above there's one in the upper left corner.
The ability to configure mmc this way is not new, but the process and the dialogs have had a great overhaul in Vista. In 2003 and XP the control panel contained lots of preconfigured mmc's, like serviced components, in Vista you have to assemble these yourself.