WCF Service - The service certificate is not provided

Question

encountered a problem whereby the WCF Service Host does not detect the existence of the service certificate that is needed to host a WCF service.

 

System.InvalidOperationException: The service certificate is not provided. Specify a service certificate in ServiceCredentials.

 

Service Config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.serviceModel>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="announcementBehavior">
<!--The following behavior attribute is required to enable WCF serialization of large data sets -->
<dataContractSerializer maxItemsInObjectGraph="2147483647"/>
<serviceDiscovery>
<announcementEndpoints>
<endpoint kind="announcementEndpoint" address="net.tcp://localhost:8005/Announcement" binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="RequestReplyNetTcpBinding"/>
</announcementEndpoints>
</serviceDiscovery>
<serviceThrottling maxConcurrentCalls="1500" maxConcurrentSessions="1500" maxConcurrentInstances="1500"/>
<serviceCredentials>
<serviceCertificate findValue="WCFServer" storeLocation="LocalMachine" storeName="TrustedPeople" x509FindType="FindBySubjectName" />
<clientCertificate>
<authentication certificateValidationMode="PeerTrust" trustedStoreLocation="LocalMachine" revocationMode="NoCheck"/>
</clientCertificate>
</serviceCredentials>
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
<service name="Test2ServLib.IService1" behaviorConfiguration="announcementBehavior">
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="net.tcp://localhost:8006/Service1"/>
</baseAddresses>
</host>
<endpoint binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="RequestReplyNetTcpBinding" contract="Test2ServLib.IService1" behaviorConfiguration="LargeEndpointBehavior" />
<bindings>
<netTcpBinding>
<binding name = "RequestReplyNetTcpBinding">
<security>
<message clientCredentialType="Certificate" />
</security>
</binding>
</netTcpBinding>
</bindings>
</system.serviceModel>
</configuration>