WCF obtaining certificate encoded value

Question

I am using a certificate with my WCF service so have an encoded value in the web.Config

<identity>
  <certificate encodedValue="large string!!!!!!!" />
</identity>

The value was generated by Visual studio in development using my test certificate.

Now I am deploying I want to get the encoded value for the certificate maintained by the third part who manage the server.

I know that using the svcutil.exe tool as follows will give me this.

svcutil.exe http://servicename.svc

What I want to know is

1. Is this the recommended approach
2. Are there any either ways to do this that I'm missing

EDIT: Visual Studio isn't available and I cant move the certificate so it will have to be a non VS solution

Answer 1

This can be done by exporting the certificate (via IIS or Certificate Snap In) to a .cer file without the private key in base64 form, then opening in notepad and copying and pasting this into encodedValue