Imagine this, you are a happy developer that is creating a wonderful enterprise search webpart for MOSS, you have created lots and lots of scopes and managed properties in your machine and now you have to install your app in the test, QA and production server and your team also need the app in their machines, you need to recreate the scopes and properties in the machines… This can be a real hell.

If you are in this situation SharePoint Shared Services Search Provider Property Creation is your tool.

Simply export and import, and all the machines will be alike :), really really time saving!