Choosing how to deploy Draftable Clean

This guide helps IT administrators make the main deployment decisions for Draftable Clean. Before you start, read Before you deploy: IT checklist. Draftable Clean has two parts, and each has its own choice:

• The desktop application: per-user EXE or machine-wide MSI.
• The Outlook add-in: who receives it, and which manifest URL you deploy.

A third choice is how you manage settings: Group Policy, Intune or the registry.

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Desktop application: EXE or MSI

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Choose the EXE if

• You are one person, or a small team, installing on your own computers.
• You want updates to arrive without IT doing anything.
• You are running a short trial on a few computers.

The EXE updates itself. If your security policy needs every software change to be approved first, tell users before you start, or choose the MSI.

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Choose the MSI if

• You deploy software centrally with Configuration Manager, Intune or Group Policy.
• You need to control when each update reaches users.
• Users work on shared computers such as Citrix or Remote Desktop Services. Keep the Http service feature installed; it provides cleaning for the Outlook add-in on multi-user systems.

See Enterprise Deployment for the MSI features and command-line options, and Updating Draftable Clean for how each installer is updated.

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Outlook add-in: who gets it

A Microsoft 365 administrator deploys the add-in from Integrated apps in the Microsoft 365 admin center. When you deploy it, you choose: Only assign the add-in to people who already have the desktop application installed and licensed. Without it, the add-in cannot clean their attachments. It can take up to 72 hours for the add-in to appear for newly assigned users, so allow for this in your plan. See Installing Draftable Clean Outlook Add-in.

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Outlook add-in: latest or pinned manifest

If you pin the add-in, also plan desktop updates so the two stay a supported pair. Installing Draftable Clean Outlook Add-in gives the recommended desktop and add-in versions and the minimum desktop version the add-in needs, and the release log lists what each release changes. Updating the desktop application does not update a pinned add-in.

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Settings: Group Policy, Intune or registry

Draftable Clean reads its settings from the Windows registry, so any tool that writes registry policy works. Whichever you use, a policy takes priority over the user’s own setting. User Configuration policy takes priority over Computer Configuration policy. See Configuring preferences for your organization.

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Quick decisions

• One person, own computer: EXE, enter the product key on first launch. Ask your Microsoft 365 administrator for the add-in.
• Small organization, no central software tools: EXE on each computer, add-in assigned to a pilot group first, then to everyone.
• Organization with Configuration Manager or Intune: MSI deployed silently, product key and settings deployed by policy, add-in assigned by group.
• Citrix or Remote Desktop Services: MSI with the Http service, policies under Computer Configuration where noted.
• Strict change control: MSI and a pinned add-in manifest, so you decide when each update ships.

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Next steps