Imaging and Configuration Designer - Taskbar items didnt appear

Question

Hello all -

I havent deployed Windows images since WAIK and am new to all of the ADK, etc.

I used Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer to create a baseline image and I wanted it to append certain items to the taskbar.

I generated the following customizations.xml file from my project I created which according to the following link I should have a working package to deploy, but the taskbar items never show.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/customize-windows-10-start-screens-by-using-provisioning-packages-and-icd

Here is the XML file I generated:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<WindowsCustomizations>
<PackageConfig xmlns="urn:schemas-Microsoft-com:Windows-ICD-Package-Config.v1.0">
<ID>{7730c199-5d05-4f54-bc0b-6ceb9914ca0d}</ID>
<Name>Test 1.1</Name>
<Version>1.1</Version>
<OwnerType>ITAdmin</OwnerType>
<Rank>0</Rank>
<Notes></Notes>
</PackageConfig>
<Settings xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:windows-provisioning">
<Customizations>
<Common>
<Accounts>
<Users>
<User UserName="admin" Name="admin">
<Password>4dm1n_lvb</Password>
<UserGroup>Administrators</UserGroup>
</User>
</Users>
</Accounts>
<OOBE>
<Desktop>
<EnableCortanaVoice>False</EnableCortanaVoice>
<HideOobe>False</HideOobe>
</Desktop>
</OOBE>
<Policies>
<Experience>
<AllowCortana>No</AllowCortana>
</Experience>
<Start>
<HideShutDown>Yes</HideShutDown>
<StartLayout><LayoutModificationTemplate xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification" xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout" xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout" xmlns:taskbar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/TaskbarLayout" Version="1">
<LayoutOptions StartTileGroupCellWidth="6" />
<DefaultLayoutOverride>
<StartLayoutCollection>
<defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth="6" />
</StartLayoutCollection>
<CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection PinListPlacement="Replace">
<defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
<taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
<taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Google Chrome.lnk" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Mozilla Thunderbird.lnk" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Mocha Telnet.lnk" />
</taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
</defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
</CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>
</DefaultLayoutOverride>
</LayoutModificationTemplate></StartLayout>
</Start>
</Policies>
</Common>
</Customizations>
</Settings>
</WindowsCustomizations>