diff --git a/libraries/integration/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.ApplicationInsights.Core/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.ApplicationInsights.Core.csproj b/libraries/integration/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.ApplicationInsights.Core/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.ApplicationInsights.Core.csproj
index 4320b494b5..768e73cec2 100644
--- a/libraries/integration/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.ApplicationInsights.Core/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.ApplicationInsights.Core.csproj
+++ b/libraries/integration/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.ApplicationInsights.Core/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.ApplicationInsights.Core.csproj
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
+    <!-- Explicitly set dependency to the latest version, because we have a transient dependency brought by Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore and can't fix by updating runtime, since it's not a framework reference"-->
+    <PackageReference Include="System.Text.Encodings.Web" Version="5.0.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore" Version="2.12.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Bot.Builder" Condition=" '$(ReleasePackageVersion)' == '' " Version="$(LocalPackageVersion)" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Bot.Builder" Condition=" '$(ReleasePackageVersion)' != '' " Version="$(ReleasePackageVersion)" />
diff --git a/libraries/integration/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.AspNet.Core/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.AspNet.Core.csproj b/libraries/integration/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.AspNet.Core/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.AspNet.Core.csproj
index e6b7f109d0..9183761947 100644
--- a/libraries/integration/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.AspNet.Core/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.AspNet.Core.csproj
+++ b/libraries/integration/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.AspNet.Core/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Integration.AspNet.Core.csproj
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'netstandard2.0'">
+    <!-- Explicitly set to 5.0.1 for those built against 2.0-->
+    <PackageReference Include="System.Text.Encodings.Web" Version="5.0.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Abstractions" Version="2.1.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Formatters.Json" Version="2.1.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Core" Version="2.1.0" />
diff --git a/tests/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.TestBot.Json/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.TestBot.Json.csproj b/tests/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.TestBot.Json/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.TestBot.Json.csproj
index 72df959013..e36c24f03a 100644
--- a/tests/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.TestBot.Json/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.TestBot.Json.csproj
+++ b/tests/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.TestBot.Json/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.TestBot.Json.csproj
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 
   <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="Jint" Version="2.11.58" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore" Version="2.12.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.NewtonsoftJson" Version="3.1.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting" Version="3.1.0-beta1-final" />
   </ItemGroup>