PinListPlacement="Replace" doesn't work with Intune

Question

So i've been fiddling around with Intune for a short while now and i am trying to push a custom Start Menu and Taskbar. The Startmenu works fine, but the taskbar doesnt.
I can get the taskbar to add icons if i remove the title line. But it just stops working all together for Taskbar if i add the line shown. What am i missing?
The XML is shown here;

<LayoutModificationTemplate

 xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout"

 xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout" 

 xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification"

 xmlns:taskbar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/TaskbarLayout" Version="1">

<LayoutOptions StartTileGroupCellWidth="6"/>

<DefaultLayoutOverride LayoutCustomizationRestrictionType="OnlySpecifiedGroups">

<StartLayoutCollection>

  <defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth="6">

    <start:Group Name="">

      <start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="0" Row="0" DesktopApplicationID="Chrome" />

      <start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="4" Row="0" DesktopApplicationID="Microsoft.Office.lync.exe.15" />

      <start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="2" Row="0" DesktopApplicationID="MSEdge" />

    </start:Group>

    <start:Group Name="">

      <start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="4" Row="2" DesktopApplicationID="com.squirrel.Teams.Teams" />

      <start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="0" Row="0" DesktopApplicationID="Microsoft.Office.OUTLOOK.EXE.15" />

      <start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="4" Row="0" DesktopApplicationID="Microsoft.Office.EXCEL.EXE.15" />

      <start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="2" Row="0" DesktopApplicationID="Microsoft.Office.WINWORD.EXE.15" />

      <start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="0" Row="2" DesktopApplicationID="Microsoft.Office.POWERPNT.EXE.15" />

      <start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="2" Row="2" DesktopApplicationID="Microsoft.Office.ONENOTE.EXE.15" />

    </start:Group>

  </defaultlayout:StartLayout>

</StartLayoutCollection>

</DefaultLayoutOverride>

<CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection PinListPlacement="replace">

<defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>

  <taskbar:TaskbarPinList>

     <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\File Explorer.lnk" />

     <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Google Chrome.lnk" />

     <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\OUTLOOK.lnk" />

  </taskbar:TaskbarPinList>

</defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>

</CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>

</LayoutModificationTemplate>

Answer 1

@Thomas Balzano , By adding PinListPlacement="Replace" to <CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>, we remove all default pinned apps; only the apps that we specify will be pinned to the taskbar.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/configure-windows-10-taskbar

In my lab test, I find it is working when the pinlistplacement is added. I notice it is not working in our environment. Here, we suggest to export start menu & Taskbar Layout from a windows 10 client with the same windows version which is already set and deploy again to see if it can be working. Here is a link for the reference;
https://hmaslowski.com/home/f/customize-windows-10-start-menu-taskbar-with-mdmuem
Note: Non-Microsoft link, just for the reference.

Please try the above suggestions and if there's any update, feel free to let us know.

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