Start Menu Layout GPO not Working

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Hello all. I have spent a good part of my day today assisting one of my helpdesk guys with a project that he is working on involving customizing the start menu layout for Windows 10, locking it down, and deploying it to a subset of my user base. We have followed this and several similar articles with no luck:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/deploymentguys/2016/03/07/windows-10-start-layout-customization/

He created a brand new profile on a fresh Windows 10 workstation and ran the Export-StartLayout Powershell cmdlet to export the config to XML. We built a GPO and enabled both the user and computer policies for Policies > Administrative Templates >Start Menu and Taskbar and configured the Start Layout policy to enabled with the file path set to where we put the XML (we put it in the GPO in sysvol so users can easily get to it to read it.).

Long story short, we tested this and it is not working. GPRESULT -R and RSPO.MSC confirm that all parts of the policy are being applied and it effectively locks the start menu from further customization (as we wanted) but it's not updating the layout. We can reach the script through UNC but it just doesn't seem to want to work.

Any suggestions?

 

 

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