Pin tiles inside of existing groups inside of Windows 10

Question

I am working on a rollout of customized start menus for a large number of end users and PC's. Due to the complexity of the roles, creating and importing XML is not ideal. I have not found any resource on adding pinning tiles inside of menu groups or folders inside of those. I am attempting to modify this script to add inside of an existing menu group. Any ideas on where to find the insert to folder instruction?

function Pin-App { param(
 [string]$appname,
 [switch]$unpin
 )
 try{
 if ($unpin.IsPresent){
 ((New-Object -Com Shell.Application).NameSpace('shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}').Items() | ?{$_.Name -eq $appname}).Verbs() | ?{$_.Name.replace('&','') -match 'From "Start" UnPin|Unpin from start'} | %{$_.DoIt()}
 return "App '$appname' unpinned from taskbar"
 }else{
 ((New-Object -Com Shell.Application).NameSpace('shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}').Items() | ?{$_.Name -eq $appname}).Verbs() | ?{$_.Name.replace('&','') -match 'To "Start" Pin|Pin to Start'} | %{$_.DoIt()}
 return "App '$appname' pinned to Start"
 }
 }catch{
 Write-Error "Error Pinning/Unpinning App! (App-Name correct?)"
 }
 }
 #Example of a pinned app
 Pin-App "Calculator" -pin

This works but only to pin an unpin indiscriminately. For my project I need to find a way to pin to a group or folder inside of a group. Has anyone encountered this? My advanced googling came up empty. Additionally I am aware that Microsoft is not keen on allowing this to prevent abuse. I am not interested in a 3rd party start menu. I am only looking for a direction to adding the folder and group structure in real time for a very large managed group of computers running Windows 10 Pro 1703.

Answer 1

So Microsoft, in the infinite wisdom, have decided for businesses, administrators and everyone else that they want end users only to decide what is on the start menu. I have created a solution for this and will post once it is verified in current iterations of the operating system. It employs a dynamic and supported mechanism to generate a layout modification XML and apply it via GPO based on varying parameters (whitelist, blacklist, folder grouping etc).

I hope someone from Microsoft realizes that this makes management that administrators have come to expect nearly impossible. It makes me want to switch to Mac or Linux.