What's the difference between Clean and Lightspeed Clean?
Learn the difference between the Clean and Lightspeed Clean actions in Workshare Protect.
What are Clean and Lightspeed Clean?
Every time you send an email with an attached Word document, PowerPoint presentation or Excel spreadsheet, Workshare checks the attachment to see if it breaches security policies. If it does, Workshare removes the hidden data using either the Clean or the Lightspeed Clean action, according to what has been set with the Workshare Configuration Manager or Policy Designer.When the Clean action is applied, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or Excel is opened in the background to complete the action. When the Lightspeed Clean action is applied, Workshare's own processes are used and there is no need to open Word, PowerPoint or Excel, making the action much faster and reducing the potential for conflicts with other 3rd party add-ins for Microsoft Office.
Note: PDFs are cleaned with the PDF Clean action, which behaves the same way as Lightspeed Clean.
What's cleaned?
In Workshare 9 and below, Clean and Lightspeed Clean remove different types of hidden data. They also display the removed data differently in the cleaned file. A side-by-side comparison of is described in Appendix C of the Workshare Professional 9 User Guide.In Workshare 9.5 and above, both Clean and Lightspeed Clean remove the same hidden data and display the same results in the cleaned file.
Configure Clean or Lightspeed Clean
In Workshare 9 and below, Clean is the default option. In Workshare 9.5 and above, Lightspeed Clean is the default option.To change whether Clean or Lightspeed Clean is used:
- Open the Workshare Configuration Manager in User Mode (Start > Workshare Configuration (User Mode)).
Note: Settings applied in User Mode change the current user. If you want to make changes to the local machine or create a deployment script, you should now click Launch Administrator Mode in the Workshare Configuration Manager.
- Click Administration in the Protection category.
- Select Enable Lightspeed Clean to use the Lightspeed Clean action, or deslect Enable Lightspeed Clean to use the Clean action.
Note: If you're in Administrator Mode, you can select the lock to the left of the option to prevent your users from changing it in User Mode.
- Click Apply. Your option is applied. A message is displayed to ask you to restart any Microsoft Office applications you have running.
Note: If you're in Administrator Mode and you want to save your configuration as a script, click Save. More information about saving deployment scripts can be found in the Installation Guide.
- Close the restart message.
- Close the Workshare Configuration Manager.
- Restart any Microsoft Office applications you have open (such as Outlook, Word, Excel or PowerPoint).
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