diff --git a/ports/benchmark/portfile.cmake b/ports/benchmark/portfile.cmake
index f1b79a6ca79b38..a5cf1ea0ad6dea 100644
--- a/ports/benchmark/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/benchmark/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-#https://github.com/google/benchmark/issues/661
-vcpkg_fail_port_install(ON_TARGET "uwp")
-
 vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_STATIC_LIBRARY)
 
 vcpkg_from_github(
diff --git a/ports/benchmark/vcpkg.json b/ports/benchmark/vcpkg.json
index 713f0fa31669b1..833ba8759d8943 100644
--- a/ports/benchmark/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/benchmark/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 {
+  "$comment": "https://github.com/google/benchmark/issues/661 describes the missing UWP support upstream",
   "name": "benchmark",
   "version-semver": "1.6.0",
+  "port-version": 1,
   "description": "A library to support the benchmarking of functions, similar to unit-tests.",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/google/benchmark",
   "supports": "!uwp",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index fd5ec94f2cfa52..18a1624563e25c 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
     },
     "benchmark": {
       "baseline": "1.6.0",
-      "port-version": 0
+      "port-version": 1
     },
     "bento4": {
       "baseline": "1.5.1",