diff --git a/ports/nethost/portfile.cmake b/ports/nethost/portfile.cmake
index 3809d9872b38d8..c7d4aae3b89ede 100644
--- a/ports/nethost/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/nethost/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-vcpkg_fail_port_install(ON_TARGET "uwp")
-
 set(COMMIT_HASH 188427d7e18102c45fc6d0e20c135e226f215992)
 
 vcpkg_from_github(
diff --git a/ports/nethost/vcpkg.json b/ports/nethost/vcpkg.json
index 467d4249c8b13b..0f65e50da87bbe 100644
--- a/ports/nethost/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/nethost/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 {
   "name": "nethost",
-  "version-string": "2019-12-21",
-  "port-version": 1,
+  "version-date": "2019-12-21",
+  "port-version": 2,
   "description": "Provides a set of APIs that can be used to host .NET Core (dotnet)",
-  "homepage": "https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/master/src/installer/corehost/cli/nethost"
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/master/src/installer/corehost/cli/nethost",
+  "supports": "!uwp"
 }
diff --git a/scripts/ci.baseline.txt b/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
index 3b862a8e0b80bb..af87218d1c5bef 100644
--- a/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
+++ b/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
@@ -903,8 +903,6 @@ nanovg:arm-uwp=fail
 nanovg:x64-uwp=fail
 nativefiledialog:arm-uwp=fail
 nativefiledialog:x64-uwp=fail
-nethost:x64-uwp=fail
-nethost:arm-uwp=fail
 ngspice:x64-windows-static=fail
 nng:arm-uwp=fail
 nng:x64-uwp=fail
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index ec84f26e50e4ac..8bf9ff8fe4cb8c 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -4718,7 +4718,7 @@
     },
     "nethost": {
       "baseline": "2019-12-21",
-      "port-version": 1
+      "port-version": 2
     },
     "nettle": {
       "baseline": "3.6",
diff --git a/versions/n-/nethost.json b/versions/n-/nethost.json
index c430d8a410950e..0181e8cdef56e8 100644
--- a/versions/n-/nethost.json
+++ b/versions/n-/nethost.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "5b1a7d98ce2c1520bbb370dfc2fcb8c3d704c300",
+      "version-date": "2019-12-21",
+      "port-version": 2
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "15d7240f68194b95c97bdac0658a1ffce7015f34",
       "version-string": "2019-12-21",