3 rd Party Registration & Account Management SMT Update To AMWG March 22, 2016

3 rd Party Registration & Account Management Update on SMT February Minor Release to Correct Deficiencies and Usability Defects

3 rd Party Registration & Account Management February 27, 2016 SMT Minor Release to Correct Deficiencies and Usability Defects 3 Release completed successfully on February SMT included the following:  Allow user entered date ranges to be maintained while the user toggles between the daily usage view and the interval read view on the SMT website –This is AMWG CR that had been originally scheduled with Third Party release –Previously for viewing usage the SMT website utilizes the default of most recent day that data exists in SMT for both the daily usage view and the interval reads view. If a user modified the date range in a usage view and then moved to another view that modified date range was lost and the default of most recent day data was reinserted –SMT will now maintain user entered modified date ranges across usage views on the website

3 rd Party Registration & Account Management February 27, 2016 SMT Minor Release to Correct Deficiencies and Usability Defects 4 Release completed successfully on February SMT included the following :  Implemented FTPS and API SSL certificate expiration alerts for REPs and Third Parties –REPs and Third Party’s utilize SSL certificates to integrate with SMT FTPS and API –These certificates periodically expire and must be renewed by REPs and Third Party’s –SMT now sends reminders concerning FTPS and API SSL certificate expirations to REPs and Third Parties –These reminders begin 60 days prior to expiration and continue weekly until expiration date or the certificate is renewed –SMIT also sends an internal to the maintenance support team in order to prepare them to support implementation of the new certificates  Enhanced the SMT GUI usability so that the ad hoc report status information is more accurate –Previously when an ad hoc report status is presented as complete the corresponding detail information states “Your report has been sent to your ”. There can be various types of delays from the time the report states complete and it is actually received into the box of the user. This lag can cause help desk calls. –The corresponding detail information for the complete status has been modified to state “Your report has been generated”. –In addition, there is now an overall header at the top of the ad hoc report screen stating “When the status changes to “completed” the report is generated at SMT and SMT typically sends it to your within a few minutes. If you do not receive the report within 24 hours, please check your spam filters and then call the SMT Help Desk.

3 rd Party Registration & Account Management February 27, 2016 SMT Minor Release to Correct Deficiencies and Usability Defects 5 Release completed successfully on February SMT included the following :  Corrected the error message on the SMT website Ad Hoc Monthly reporting page –Previously the SMT ad hoc monthly reporting error message displayed for an incorrectly requested date range is “ERROR! A Smart Meter Texas website error has occurred. Please try again later” –This message has been corrected to state “You are requesting a date range longer than the allowed latest 12 months” This Release was implemented on February 27, 2016 and required an outage of the portal website, HAN and ODR from Friday February 26, :00 P.M. CST until Saturday February 27, :00 A.M. CST LSE file delivery and the FTPS folders were not affected. Market Notices - SENT 30 day (1/27/16), SENT10 day (2/17/16), SENT 3 day (2/24/16) and SENT 1 day (2/26/16)

3 rd Party Registration & Account Management SMT April 29 Minor Release to Correct Deficiencies and Usability Defects

3 rd Party Registration & Account Management April 29, 2016 SMT Minor Release to Correct Deficiencies and Usability Defects 7 Planned Release for April SMT to include the following:  Allow a user to open SMT in multiple tabs in the same browser without having to re-enter login credentials (Browser experience session management best practice) –Currently when a user is logged into SMT and opens another tab in the same browser to utilize a second session of SMT they must re-enter their log in credentials again into the new tab –Per better industry practice when a user is already logged into a website and they open another tab for that same website they should not have to log in again –SMT will be corrected so that if a user is already logged into SMT and they open a tab in the same browser for a second SMT session they will not have to enter login credentials. The user will be taken directly to the SMT landing page.

3 rd Party Registration & Account Management April 29, 2016 SMT Minor Release to Correct Deficiencies and Usability Defects 8 The Release is planned for implementation on April 29, 2016 and will require an outage of the portal website, HAN and ODR from Friday April 29, :00 P.M. CST until Saturday April 30, :00 A.M. CST LSE file delivery and the FTPS folders will not be affected. Market Notices will be sent out - 30 day (3/29/16), 10 day (4/19/16), 3 day (4/26/16) and 1 day (4/28/16)

3 rd Party Registration & Account Management SMT SSL Certificate Renewal April 6, 2016

3 rd Party Registration & Account Management SMT SSL Certificate Renewal 10 SMT utilizes SSL certificates as one of the security features to NAESB (TDSP data feed to SMT), FTPS (ROR and Third Party receipt of data) and API (ROR and Third Party reporting requests) integration The SSL certificates expire every two years and must be renewed and reinstalled All of the SMT JDOA TDSPs are affected and will participate in the reinstallation process. 2 REPs, 2 vendors that support REPs and 2 Third Parties that utilize two way SSL Certificate authentication will be directly affected and will be participating in the reinstallation process. These companies have been contacted and involved in the planning process. The SMT SSL certificate renewal will take place on Wednesday April 6, On April 6 the renewal process will require a brief 1 hour outage of the SMT API services from 9 AM to 10 AM and a brief ½ hour outage of the SMT FTPS services from 1 PM to 1:30 PM Market Notices include – SENT (3/14/16), PLANNED (3/24/16), PLANNED (4/1/16) and PLANNED (4/5/16)

3 rd Party Registration & Account Management Q&A Monthly SMT Reports to AMWG Data Through January 2016