please disregard

jacifriesen · 2021-01-19T21:53:36.000Z

please disregard

dbeato · 2021-01-20T04:23:48.000Z

Welcome to the community! What is your Windows 10 version ? Also what happens when you Import a working layout that is exported from a working computer?

adrian_ych · 2021-01-20T11:52:01.000Z

dbeato:

Welcome to the community! What is your Windows 10 version ? Also what happens when you Import a working layout that is exported from a working computer?

@dbeato I am not sure but does Powershell have some sort of script checker like those in SQL mgmt studio where it checks line by line for spelling errors and/or command errors etc ?

I would like to think some of the paths used by keys (those long strings) etc maybe part of user\appdata and therefore not valid ? If exported, if might be replaced with more generic ones or removed.

andytechacct · 2021-01-20T12:07:04.000Z

have you aleady tried exporting that file from DISM? with Export-startlayout?

dbeato · 2021-01-20T18:05:33.000Z

adrian_ych:

dbeato:

Welcome to the community! What is your Windows 10 version ? Also what happens when you Import a working layout that is exported from a working computer?

dbeato I am not sure but does Powershell have some sort of script checker like those in SQL mgmt studio where it checks line by line for spelling errors and/or command errors etc ?

I would like to think some of the paths used by keys (those long strings) etc maybe part of user\appdata and therefore not valid ? If exported, if might be replaced with more generic ones or removed.

I have not seen that script checker but VSCOde or others like PowerShell ISE do check on the code so that might be good. That said the XML here is the question which sometimes can be crazy. Also the Layout only gets applied on new profiles and will not affect existing profiles.

spiceuser-qxrtb · 2021-01-20T18:17:07.000Z

@jacifriesen

Are you trying to do this network wide? i.e. create a standard taskbar layout on everyone’s workstation?

jacifriesen · 2021-01-29T20:22:15.000Z

Yes

Neally · 2021-01-30T00:49:23.000Z

jacifriesen:

Yes

We asked you several questios and your answer is ‘yes’?

Help us to help you…

You can use a simple XML validator ( e.g. https://www.xmlvalidation.com ) , there are errors in your XML

jacifriesen:

How are you importing it? What code are you using?The less info you provide the less we can help…
There are samples for the taskbar layout XML:

learn.microsoft.com

Configure Windows taskbar - Configure Windows

Administrators can pin more apps to the taskbar and remove default pinned apps from the taskbar by adding a section to a layout modification XML file.

Those are importing just fine in XML
e.g.

[xml]$xml = 
@"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<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" StartTileGroupsColumnCount="1" />
  <DefaultLayoutOverride>
    <StartLayoutCollection>
      <defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth="6" xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout">
        <start:Group Name="Life at a glance" xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout">
          <start:Tile Size="2x2" Column="0" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge" />
          <start:Tile Size="2x2" Column="4" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy!CortanaUI" />
          <start:Tile Size="2x2" Column="2" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.BingWeather_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App" />
        </start:Group>        
      </defaultlayout:StartLayout>
    </StartLayoutCollection>
  </DefaultLayoutOverride>
    <CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>
      <defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
        <taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
          <taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge" />
          <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\File Explorer.lnk" />
        </taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
      </defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
    </CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>
</LayoutModificationTemplate>
"@

Neally · 2021-01-30T00:59:24.000Z

adrian_ych:

dbeato I am not sure but does Powershell have some sort of script checker like those in SQL mgmt studio where it checks line by line for spelling errors and/or command errors etc ?

I would like to think some of the paths used by keys (those long strings) etc maybe part of user\appdata and therefore not valid ? If exported, if might be replaced with more generic ones or removed.

Of course powershell has that.

there is PSScriptanalyzer and PSReadline and a .Net Parser

[system.management.automation.language.parser]

but OP’s issues is not powershell , it’s that powershell can not import the XML as the XML has an invalid format.

That’s like using ‘import-csv’ but the CSV file is not in CSV format, (e.g . not comma separated but has hyphen as delimiter) there is very little you can do other than fixing the import file…

@adrianyong4136

Neally · 2021-01-30T01:31:16.000Z

it seems to load fine like so, however if it still does what you want it to do… I have no clue.

[xml]$xml = 
@"
<LayoutModificationTemplate
    xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification"
    xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout"
    xmlns:start="htt://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout"
    xmlns:taskbar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/TaskbarLayout"
    Version="1">
   <LayoutOptions StartTileGroupCellWidth="6" StartTileGroupsColumnCount="1" />
   
<DefaultLayoutOverride>
    <StartLayoutCollection>
      <defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth="6" xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout">;
        <start:Group Name="Office" xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout">;
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="2" Row="1" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.MSACCESS.EXE.15" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="3" Row="0" AppUserModelID="com.squirrel.Teams.Teams" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="3" Row="1" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.SkyDrive.Desktop" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="0" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.OUTLOOK.EXE.15" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="1" Row="1" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.MSAPUB.EXE.15" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="1" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.WINWORD.EXE.15" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="0" Row="1" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.POWERPNT.EXE.15" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="2" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.EXCEL.EXE.15" />
        </start:Group>
        <start:Group Name="Browsers">
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="0" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.InternetExplorer.Default" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="2" Row="0" AppUserModelID="MSEdge" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="1" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Chrome" />
        </start:Group>
        <start:Group Name="Other" >
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="1" Row="1" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="0" Row="1" AppUserModelID="windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy!microsoft.windows.immersivecontrolpanel" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="1" Row="0" AppUserModelID="{7C5A40EF-A0FB-4BFC-874A-C0F2E0B9FA8e}\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" />
        </start:Group>        
      </defaultlayout:StartLayout>
    </StartLayoutCollection>
  </DefaultLayoutOverride>
    <CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>
      <defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
        <taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
<taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\File Explorer.lnk" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.EXCEL.EXE.15" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.WINWORD.EXE.15" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.OUTLOOK.EXE.15" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="MSEdge" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Chrome" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Microsoft.SkyDrive.Desktop" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge" />
        </taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
      </defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
    </CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>
</LayoutModificationTemplate>
"@

Neally · 2021-01-30T01:32:56.000Z

@jacifriesen

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<LayoutModificationTemplate
    xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification"
    xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout"
    xmlns:start="htt://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout"
    xmlns:taskbar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/TaskbarLayout"
    Version="1">
   <LayoutOptions StartTileGroupCellWidth="6" StartTileGroupsColumnCount="1" />
   
<DefaultLayoutOverride>
    <StartLayoutCollection>
      <defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth="6" xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout">;
        <start:Group Name="Office" xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout">;
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="2" Row="1" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.MSACCESS.EXE.15" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="3" Row="0" AppUserModelID="com.squirrel.Teams.Teams" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="3" Row="1" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.SkyDrive.Desktop" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="0" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.OUTLOOK.EXE.15" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="1" Row="1" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.MSAPUB.EXE.15" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="1" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.WINWORD.EXE.15" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="0" Row="1" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.POWERPNT.EXE.15" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="2" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.EXCEL.EXE.15" />
        </start:Group>
        <start:Group Name="Browsers">
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="0" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.InternetExplorer.Default" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="2" Row="0" AppUserModelID="MSEdge" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="1" Row="0" AppUserModelID="Chrome" />
        </start:Group>
        <start:Group Name="Other" >
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="1" Row="1" AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="0" Row="1" AppUserModelID="windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy!microsoft.windows.immersivecontrolpanel" />
          <start:Tile Size="1x1" Column="1" Row="0" AppUserModelID="{7C5A40EF-A0FB-4BFC-874A-C0F2E0B9FA8e}\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" />
        </start:Group>        
      </defaultlayout:StartLayout>
    </StartLayoutCollection>
  </DefaultLayoutOverride>
    <CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>
      <defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
        <taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
<taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\File Explorer.lnk" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.EXCEL.EXE.15" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.WINWORD.EXE.15" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Microsoft.Office.OUTLOOK.EXE.15" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="MSEdge" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Chrome" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Microsoft.SkyDrive.Desktop" />
<taskbar:DesktopApp AppUserModelID="Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge" />
        </taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
      </defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
    </CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>
</LayoutModificationTemplate>