SQL Server Surface Area Configuration command line interface

The SQL Server Surface Area Configuration command-line interface, sac.exe, allows you to import and export settings.
In a recent server consolidation exercise I exported the setting and used it as a form of backup , in case of any errors
during the consolidation process.
You can import and export settings on a per-instance basis and also on a per-service basis by using the command line parameters.

Using this command line utility requires sysadmin privileges

The following code is an example of exporting all settings from the default instance of SQL Server on server1 and importing them into server2:

sac out MYSERVER1.out –S MYSERVER2.out –U admin –I MSSQLSERVER
sac in MYSERVER1.out –S MYSERVER2