On EM v. 2018.3.
I am using the built in personalization templates to capture/apply the Start Screen for Win10 1803. For some reason, the only items that get persisted are the UWP/AppX/Modern apps. If I pin a shortcut to a "legacy" (Win32) installed application, like Chrome or Word 2016 (installed to C:\Program Files\XYZ), these shortcuts are not applied.
I've verified that there is data in the captured elements and I've tried adding a few of each type of application and consistently, the legacy apps are not there, yet the UWP apps are.
I've also made sure that there are no external policies being applied to interfere.
I've tried to follow some of the "fixes" that export the tile layout at logoff, then inject it at logon with a GPO, then unlock. It appears that those were for older versions of Win10 and do not work.
I imagine that the Start screen in Win 10 is a moving target with MS constantly changing the way it stores these settings.
Is there something I'm missing here or has anyone gotten this to work properly?