As a starting place, the doc I referenced yesterday for Solaris 10, http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/samp_setup.html includes testing steps for each stage of the install - apache, mysql, php.
I believe that most or all of these testing steps would also apply to a windows server, and this doc might be a good jumping-off point for writing a similar windows doc. Of course the actual start and stop procedures for each step would be different, but the *steps* should be the same and the test scripts provided should be useful. Take a look.