Export a Base-64 x.509 Cert using PowerShell on Windows 7

Exporting a Base-64 Encoded x.509 certificate using PowerShell is trivial if you have the Export-Certificate cmdlet available. However, many of the nodes I work with are Windows 7 which unfortunately doesn’t include these cmdlets. Therefore I needed an alternate method of exporting these Base-64 encoded x.509 certificates from these nodes.

So I came up with this little snippet of code:

Hope someone finds it useful.