How to generate pfx certificate using cer certificate?

When we request SharePoint server to server trust certificates from the company, we are receiving the following two files.

Mycert.cer

Mycert.key

However, we do not receive the pfx file that required for SharePoint servers. We has been using different ways to construct the pfx file and I would like to summarize here in order for me to refer in the future.

There are different situations that we need to generate pfx certificate. The way to generate it will depends and I’ll show two different ways.

The first situation is  you have a private key with a .p7b certificate file and need to create a .pfx file.
You could use IIS server MMC UI to create the pfx file as described here.

The second is you have received both cer and kay file, you have to generate the pfx file from scratch. You could use the following command to generate the pfx file. You MUST put the key file with same name as cer file in the same directory as described here.

certutil -MergePFX Mycert.cer Mycert.pfx

The third situation is you have pfx file already imported to IIS but accidentally deleted. Now you only have the cer file but NO key file. Here is the way to generate the pfx file.

Upload the cer file to IIS as described in Microsoft support blog. Run the following command to restore the pfx file.

certutil -repairstore my "SerialNumber"

SerialNumber is the serial number that you find for the cer file uploaded.

Now you have the cert file for SharePoint server to use.