Administrative templates
Draftable Clean provides administrative templates (ADMX/ADML files) that list all available settings, making it easy to discover and configure them directly from the Group Policy editor without needing to know individual registry paths.Obtaining the templates
The templates are found in the GroupPolicy folder under the Draftable Clean installation path. Thecurrent folder is a shortcut that always points to the latest installed version.
v26.6.0 (June 2026) ships updated ADMX/ADML templates. Reinstall templates from a v26.6.0 or later installation before configuring new policies — especially Outlook add-in and must-clean settings introduced in this release.
Installing the templates
Copy the Draftable Clean.admx file to:
.adml language file from:
Editing policies
Once installed, Draftable Clean policies appear in the Group Policy editor under:- Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Draftable Clean
- User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Draftable Clean
Some settings may only appear under one scope if they are not supported in the other.
Available policy settings
Computer Configuration
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Product key | Set the product key for automatic license activation across user machines |
| Setup automatic updates | Control whether updates are applied automatically (non-MSI installer). If disabled, updates must be applied manually. |
| Send usage statistics | When enabled, anonymised usage data is sent to Draftable for diagnostics |
| Submission of exception reports | Control whether automatic crash and error reports are sent. Options: Always send, Never send |
| Enforced cleaning rules (must-clean) | Require specific metadata types to always be removed across every cleaning profile — including new custom profiles. See Enforcing must-clean metadata types below. |
| Accept terms and conditions on behalf of users | Automatically accept T&Cs on first launch, so users are not prompted |
| Launch Draftable automatically when Windows starts | If enabled, Draftable Clean launches on startup unless the user opts out |
| Users can share error logs | Controls whether the error dialog includes a button to email logs (enabled by default) |
| Custom error message | Set a custom error message shown when something goes wrong during cleaning |
| Customer contact support email body | Customize the email body used when users send logs to support |
User Configuration
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Configure admin cleaning profiles | Set administrator-managed cleaning profiles that users cannot edit |
| Configure domain rules | Define domain-to-profile mappings for the Outlook add-in (the DomainRules policy) |
| Outlook add-in: default profile when no recipients | Set (and optionally lock) the profile used when an email has no recipients |
| Outlook add-in: send protection — not finished cleaning | Set (and optionally lock) the Allow / Prompt / Block behaviour for attachments that have not finished cleaning |
| Outlook add-in: send protection — unsupported file | Set (and optionally lock) the behaviour for unsupported attachment types |
| Outlook add-in: send protection — tracked changes detected | Set (and optionally lock) the behaviour when tracked changes or comments are detected |
| Outlook add-in: attachment summary format | Set (and optionally lock) the default List or Table attachment summary format |
| Outlook add-in: allow profile override | Control whether users can override the cleaning profile per attachment |
| Configure custom email subject | Set the default email subject line when sharing cleaned files via the desktop application’s Email button (not the Outlook add-in) |
| Configure custom email body | Set the default email body text when sharing cleaned files via the desktop application’s Email button (not the Outlook add-in) |
| Configure email attachment summary format | Set the default format (List or Table) for attachment summaries when sharing cleaned files via the desktop application’s Email button (not the Outlook add-in) |
| Configure submission of error reports | Control whether automatic error reports are sent |
| Configure submission of usage statistics | Control whether anonymised usage data is sent to Draftable |
Locking Outlook add-in defaults
Each Outlook add-in policy field can be set as a fixed value that end users cannot override from the desktop application’s Settings > Add-In panel. This lets administrators lock the default profile and send-protection behaviours to organisation standards while leaving other settings user-editable. Where a field is left unset by policy, the user’s own setting applies. See Priority of settings for the full precedence order.v26.6.0 administrator updates
Draftable Clean v26.6.0 (June 2026) adds several enterprise controls relevant to Group Policy administrators:- Enforce must-clean metadata types across all profiles — require specific metadata types to always be removed, regardless of which cleaning profile is active (including profiles created after the policy is applied). See Enforcing must-clean metadata types.
- Outlook add-in lockdown — lock the default profile, send-protection behaviours, attachment summary format, and per-attachment profile override using individual policy fields.
- Updated ADMX templates — DomainRules and AddInSettings policies are surfaced explicitly in the template set.
- MSI prerequisite change — the machine-wide MSI no longer requires .NET 10 Desktop Runtime as a separate prerequisite check, which may simplify deployment alongside policy rollout.
Enforcing must-clean metadata types across all profiles
The Enforced cleaning rules policy lets administrators require that specific metadata types are always removed when files are cleaned — regardless of which cleaning profile is active. Enforcement is applied across all profiles: the built-in profiles, administrator-managed profiles, and any custom profiles users create later. Enforced rules are read-only at runtime and cannot be overridden by a profile’s own settings. This gives legal and IT teams a guaranteed baseline — for example, ensuring author, comments, and tracked-change metadata are stripped from every outbound document no matter how a profile is configured.Enforced cleaning rules are defined as a JSON value in Group Policy. The set of available metadata types matches the Supported Metadata Types reference.
Configuring admin cleaning profiles
The Configure admin cleaning profiles setting is a User Configuration policy that allows administrators to define cleaning profiles centrally. These profiles are deployed to users and cannot be edited by them. The policy value is a JSON string representing the profile collection. Draftable Clean includes a built-in admin profile editor to simplify creating and updating this JSON — this workflow is designed for Group Policy deployment.The admin profile editor is intended for use with Group Policy. Launch Draftable Clean with the
--admin-profile-editor flag, edit profiles visually, then copy the exported JSON into the Group Policy setting. If you deploy settings via Microsoft Intune, you can use the editor to generate the JSON value, but you must deploy it through your Intune configuration profile — see Configuring preferences with Microsoft Intune.--admin-profile-editor flag:
- Copy the existing profile collection JSON string from Group Policy
- Open Draftable Clean with the
--admin-profile-editorflag - Import the JSON string into the admin profile editor
- Make the required changes using the visual editor
- Copy the updated JSON string back to the clipboard
- Paste the updated JSON string into the Group Policy setting to apply the changes
