diff --git a/Directory.Build.targets b/Directory.Build.targets
index f731eedc390c3..8a06a9c58756f 100644
--- a/Directory.Build.targets
+++ b/Directory.Build.targets
@@ -201,29 +201,4 @@
     </ItemGroup>
   </Target>
 
-  <!--
-    Arcade SDK versioning is defined by static properties in a targets file: work around this by
-    moving properties based on versioning into a target.
-  -->
-  <Target Name="GetProductVersions">
-    <PropertyGroup>
-      <IncludePreReleaseLabelInPackageVersion Condition="'$(DotNetFinalVersionKind)' != 'release'">true</IncludePreReleaseLabelInPackageVersion>
-      <IncludePreReleaseLabelInPackageVersion Condition="'$(SuppressFinalPackageVersion)' == 'true'">true</IncludePreReleaseLabelInPackageVersion>
-      <IncludePreReleaseLabelInPackageVersion Condition="'$(IsShipping)' != 'true'">true</IncludePreReleaseLabelInPackageVersion>
-
-      <IncludeBuildNumberInPackageVersion Condition="'$(StabilizePackageVersion)' != 'true'">true</IncludeBuildNumberInPackageVersion>
-      <IncludeBuildNumberInPackageVersion Condition="'$(SuppressFinalPackageVersion)' == 'true'">true</IncludeBuildNumberInPackageVersion>
-      <IncludeBuildNumberInPackageVersion Condition="'$(IsShipping)' != 'true'">true</IncludeBuildNumberInPackageVersion>
-
-      <ProductVersionSuffix Condition="'$(IncludePreReleaseLabelInPackageVersion)' == 'true'">-$(VersionSuffix)</ProductVersionSuffix>
-      <ProductBandVersion Condition="'$(ProductBandVersion)' == ''">$(MajorVersion).$(MinorVersion)</ProductBandVersion>
-      <ProductionVersion Condition="'$(ProductionVersion)' == ''">$(ProductBandVersion).$(PatchVersion)</ProductionVersion>
-      <ProductVersion>$(ProductionVersion)$(ProductVersionSuffix)</ProductVersion>
-
-      <SharedFrameworkNugetVersion>$(ProductVersion)</SharedFrameworkNugetVersion>
-      <NuGetVersion>$(SharedFrameworkNugetVersion)</NuGetVersion>
-      <InstallersRelativePath>Runtime/$(SharedFrameworkNugetVersion)/</InstallersRelativePath>
-    </PropertyGroup>
-  </Target>
-
 </Project>
diff --git a/eng/Publishing.props b/eng/Publishing.props
index 1507fc850339d..61b953f75c0c0 100644
--- a/eng/Publishing.props
+++ b/eng/Publishing.props
@@ -1,39 +1,193 @@
-<Project>
+<Project InitialTargets="ValidateDownloadedAssets">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <ProducesDotNetReleaseShippingAssets>true</ProducesDotNetReleaseShippingAssets>
+    <!-- This avoids creating VS.*.symbols.nupkg packages that are identical to the original package. -->
+    <AutoGenerateSymbolPackages>false</AutoGenerateSymbolPackages>
+    <!-- Set PlatformName to TargetArchitecture to create unique build manifest files. -->
+    <PlatformName Condition="'$(TargetArchitecture)' != ''">$(TargetArchitecture)</PlatformName>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <!-- Include installer archives and packages which aren't globbed by default.
-       Don't include Symbols archive as it is already included in Arcade's Publish.proj, with correct blob path. -->
-  <Target Name="PublishRuntimeInstallers"
-          BeforeTargets="BeforePublish"
-          Condition="'$(DotNetBuildRepo)' == 'true'">
-    <!-- Retrieve runtime's runtime pack product version.
+  <!--
+    Look through the downloaded artifacts to figure out how to ship them. Creates item groups for
+    other types of publishing to use.
+
+    DownloadDirectory is expected to have some directory inside, which then contains a dir for each
+    build job name. For example, this nupkg would be found:
+
+      $(DownloadDirectory)IntermediateArtifacts\windows_x64\Shipping\a.nupkg
+  -->
+  <ItemGroup Condition="'$(SignAndPublishAsJoinPoint)' == 'true'">
+    <DownloadedArtifactFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**" />
+    <DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.symbols.nupkg" />
+    <DownloadedWixPdbFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.wixpdb" />
+    <DownloadedWixpackFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.wixpack.zip" Condition="'$(PostBuildSign)' != 'true'" />
+    <DownloadedWorkloadsVSInsertionFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)*\workloads-vs\**\*" />
+    <DownloadedNupkgFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.nupkg" Exclude="@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
+
+    <!-- Exclude symbol packages from have a NuGet signature. These are never pushed to NuGet.org or
+          other feeds (in fact, that have identical identity to their non-symbol variant) -->
+    <DownloadedSymbolPackagesWithoutPaths Include="@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile->'%(Filename)%(Extension)')" />
+    <FileSignInfo Include="@(DownloadedSymbolPackagesWithoutPaths->Distinct())" CertificateName="None" />
+
+    <!-- Add files that are not affected by filtering and create checksum for them. -->
+    <UploadToBlobStorageFile
+      Include="@(DownloadedArtifactFile)"
+      Exclude="@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile);
+                @(DownloadedNupkgFile);
+                @(DownloadedWixPdbFile);
+                @(DownloadedWorkloadsVSInsertionFile);
+                @(DownloadedWixpackFile)" />
+
+    <!--
+      Filter out the RID-specific (Runtime) nupkgs and RID-agnostic nupkgs. RID-specific packages
+      are published from every job. RID-agnostic nupkgs are built with the same ID/version by
+      every job, so one specific job's outputs must be picked to sign and publish.
+    -->
+
+    <!-- RID-specific framework packs. -->
+    <RuntimeNupkgFile
+      Include="
+        $(DownloadDirectory)**\Microsoft.*.Runtime.*.nupkg;
+        $(DownloadDirectory)**\Microsoft.*.App.Host.*.nupkg;
+        $(DownloadDirectory)**\Microsoft.*.App.Crossgen2.*.nupkg"
+      Exclude="@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
+
+    <!-- VS insertion packages, carrying RID-specific installers. -->
+    <RuntimeNupkgFile
+      Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\VS.Redist.Common.*.nupkg"
+      Exclude="@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
+
+    <!--
+      Workloads VS insertion artifacts produced by src/workloads/workloads.csproj. Only grab
+      the zip artifacts as they're grouped by SDK feature band which correlates with specific VS versions.
+    -->
+    <WorkloadsVSInsertionFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)*\workloads-vs\**\*.zip" />
+
+    <!--
+      Runtime packages associated with some identity packages. Need to exclude "runtime.native.*"
+      because Libraries produces some "runtime.native.Foo" packages with
+      "runtime.<rid>.runtime.native.Foo" identity packages.
+    -->
+    <RuntimeNupkgFile
+      Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\runtime.*.nupkg"
+      Exclude="
+        $(DownloadDirectory)**\runtime.native.*.nupkg;
+        @(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
+
+    <!--
+      Packages that aren't matched above as RID-specific are considered RID-agnostic. Also include
+      the AllConfigurations packages from the Libraries build.
+    -->
+    <RidAgnosticNupkgToPublishFile
+      Include="
+        $(DownloadDirectory)**\Microsoft.NET.Workload.Mono.Toolchain.*Manifest-*.nupkg;
+        $(DownloadDirectory)**\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WebAssembly.Pack.*.nupkg;
+        $(DownloadDirectory)*\$(PublishRidAgnosticPackagesFromPlatform)\**\*.nupkg;
+        $(DownloadDirectory)*\*AllConfigurations\**\*.nupkg"
+      Exclude="@(RuntimeNupkgFile);@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
+
+    <TransportPackagesToPublishFile
+      Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*Transport*.nupkg"
+      Exclude="@(RuntimeNupkgFile);@(RidAgnosticNupkgToPublishFile);@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
+
+    <NupkgToPublishFile Include="@(RuntimeNupkgFile);@(RidAgnosticNupkgToPublishFile);@(TransportPackagesToPublishFile)" />
+
+    <!--
+      Assuming all symbol packages ship and can be found by turning .nupkg => .symbols.nupkg, find
+      them. Don't check for missing symbol packages here: some nupkgs don't have them for valid
+      reasons, such as the VS insertion packages that transport MSIs. Symbol package validation
+      will check for symbol completeness with file-by-file granularity rather than looking for
+      missing symbols.nupkg files: https://github.com/dotnet/arcade/issues/2499.
+
+      Handles several conventions:
+      * NonShipping packages have symbol nupkgs that are Shipping.
+      * Shipping packages have symbol packages in a "symbols" subdirectory.
+    -->
+    <PotentialSymbolNupkgToPublishFile
+      Include="
+        @(NupkgToPublishFile->Replace('\NonShipping\', '\Shipping\')->Replace('.nupkg', '.symbols.nupkg'));
+        @(NupkgToPublishFile->Replace('\NonShipping\', '\NonShipping\symbols\')->Replace('.nupkg', '.symbols.nupkg'));
+        @(NupkgToPublishFile->Replace('\Shipping\', '\Shipping\symbols\')->Replace('.nupkg', '.symbols.nupkg'))" />
+
+    <SymbolNupkgToPublishFile Include="@(PotentialSymbolNupkgToPublishFile->Distinct())" Condition="Exists('%(Identity)')" />
+
+    <!-- Packages -->
+    <Artifact Include="@(NupkgToPublishFile)"
+              IsShipping="$([System.String]::new('%(Identity)').Contains('\Shipping\'))"
+              PublishFlatContainer="false" />
+    <Artifact Include="@(SymbolNupkgToPublishFile)" PublishFlatContainer="false" />
+
+    <!-- Blob storage -->
+    <Artifact Include="@(UploadToBlobStorageFile)"
+              Exclude="@(NupkgToPublishFile);@(SymbolNupkgToPublishFile)"
+              IsShipping="$([System.String]::new('%(Identity)').Contains('\Shipping\'))"
+              ChecksumPath="%(FullPath).sha512" />
+    <Artifact Include="@(WorkloadsVSInsertionFile)"
+              SubBlobFolder="workloads/"
+              IsShipping="$([System.String]::new('%(Identity)').Contains('\Shipping\'))" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
+  <Target Name="GetNonStableProductVersion">
+    <!-- Retrieve the non-stable runtime pack product version.
          Don't stabilize the package version in order to retrieve the VersionSuffix. -->
     <MSBuild Projects="$(RepoRoot)src/installer/pkg/sfx/Microsoft.NETCore.App/Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.sfxproj"
              Targets="ReturnProductVersion"
              Properties="IsShipping=false;
                          Crossgen2SdkOverridePropsPath=;
                          Crossgen2SdkOverrideTargetsPath=">
-      <Output TaskParameter="TargetOutputs" PropertyName="RuntimeRuntimePackProductVersion" />
+      <Output TaskParameter="TargetOutputs" PropertyName="NonStableProductVersion" />
+    </MSBuild>
+  </Target>
+
+  <Target Name="GenerateProductVersionFiles"
+          DependsOnTargets="GetNonStableProductVersion"
+          BeforeTargets="PublishToAzureDevOpsArtifacts">
+    <!-- Retrieve the runtime pack product version. -->
+    <MSBuild Projects="$(RepoRoot)src/installer/pkg/sfx/Microsoft.NETCore.App/Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.sfxproj"
+             Targets="ReturnProductVersion"
+             Properties="Crossgen2SdkOverridePropsPath=;
+                         Crossgen2SdkOverrideTargetsPath=">
+      <Output TaskParameter="TargetOutputs" PropertyName="ProductVersionForVersionsFile" />
     </MSBuild>
 
     <ItemGroup>
-      <InstallerToPublish Include="$(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.tar.gz;
-                                   $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.zip;
-                                   $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.deb;
-                                   $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.rpm;
-                                   $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.pkg;
-                                   $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.exe;
-                                   $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.msi"
-                          Exclude="$(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\Symbols.runtime.tar.gz" />
-
-      <ItemsToPushToBlobFeed Include="@(InstallerToPublish)"
-                             IsShipping="$([System.String]::Copy('%(RecursiveDir)').StartsWith('Shipping'))"
-                             PublishFlatContainer="true"
-                             RelativeBlobPath="Runtime/$(RuntimeRuntimePackProductVersion)/%(Filename)%(Extension)" />
+      <ProductVersionFile Include="$(ArtifactsShippingPackagesDir)productVersion.txt" />
+      <ProductVersionFile Include="$(ArtifactsShippingPackagesDir)runtime-productVersion.txt" />
     </ItemGroup>
+
+    <!-- Generate productVersion.txt file containing the product version. -->
+    <WriteLinesToFile File="%(ProductVersionFile.Identity)"
+                      Lines="$(ProductVersionForVersionsFile)"
+                      Overwrite="true"
+                      Encoding="ASCII" />
+
+    <ItemGroup>
+      <Artifact Include="@(ProductVersionFile)"
+                RelativeBlobPath="Runtime/$(NonStableProductVersion)/%(Filename)%(Extension)" />
+    </ItemGroup>
+  </Target>
+
+  <Target Name="AddRelativeBlobPathToInstallerArtifacts"
+          DependsOnTargets="GetNonStableProductVersion"
+          BeforeTargets="PublishToAzureDevOpsArtifacts"
+          AfterTargets="GenerateChecksumsFromArtifacts">
+    <ItemGroup>
+      <Artifact Condition="'%(Artifact.PublishFlatContainer)' == 'true' and '%(Artifact.RelativeBlobPath)' == ''"
+                RelativeBlobPath="Runtime/$(NonStableProductVersion)/%(Artifact.SubBlobFolder)%(Filename)%(Extension)" />
+    </ItemGroup>
+  </Target>
+
+  <Target Name="ValidateDownloadedAssets" Condition="'$(SignAndPublishAsJoinPoint)' == 'true'">
+    <Error Condition="'@(SymbolNupkgToPublishFile)' == ''" Text="No symbol packages found." />
+
+    <!--
+      Duplicate RuntimeNupkgFile items mean artifact upload will fail, but only after another hour
+      of signing. Detect this early. It's possible to automatically "fix" this with Distinct(),
+      however the patterns should be fairly specific: this is likely a build infra mistake that
+      should be corrected.
+    -->
+    <Error Text="Duplicate RuntimeNupkgFile entries for: %(RuntimeNupkgFile.Identity)" Condition="@(RuntimeNupkgFile->Count()) &gt; 1" />
   </Target>
 
 </Project>
diff --git a/eng/Signing.props b/eng/Signing.props
index f76a7aa22c248..34875b1d14d96 100644
--- a/eng/Signing.props
+++ b/eng/Signing.props
@@ -1,21 +1,16 @@
 <Project>
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <!--
-      Windows arm/arm64 jobs don't have MSIs to sign. Keep it simple: allow not finding any matches
-      here and rely on overall signing validation.
 
-      During post build signing, there are no packages to sign during SignFinalPackages.
-    -->
-    <AllowEmptySignList>true</AllowEmptySignList>
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <!-- Runtime needs to sign all artifacts (including other verticals) on Windows until a cross-plat signing solution
+         is available that has all the required features. Inside the VMR we publish every vertical which is why this
+         property is then not true. -->
+    <SignAndPublishAsJoinPoint Condition="'$(DownloadDirectory)' != ''">true</SignAndPublishAsJoinPoint>
+    <!-- When signing and publishing as a join point, don't glob for default artifacts. Instead, artifacts are
+         manually added from a provided DownloadDirectory property. -->
+    <EnableDefaultArtifacts Condition="'$(SignAndPublishAsJoinPoint)' == 'true'">false</EnableDefaultArtifacts>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <!--
-      Replace the default items to sign with the specific set we want. This allows the build to call
-      Arcade's Sign.proj multiple times for different sets of files as the build progresses.
-    -->
-    <ItemsToSign Remove="@(ItemsToSign)" />
-
     <!-- apphost and comhost template files are not signed, by design. -->
     <FileSignInfo Include="apphost.exe;singlefilehost.exe;comhost.dll" CertificateName="None" />
 
@@ -37,12 +32,6 @@
     <FileSignInfo Include="Mono.Cecil.Pdb.dll" CertificateName="3PartySHA2" />
     <FileSignInfo Include="Mono.Cecil.Rocks.dll" CertificateName="3PartySHA2" />
 
-    <!-- Exclude symbol packages from have a NuGet signature. These are never pushed to NuGet.org or
-         other feeds (in fact, that have identical identity to their non-symbol variant) -->
-    <DownloadedSymbolPackages Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.symbols.nupkg" />
-    <DownloadedSymbolPackagesWithoutPaths Include="@(DownloadedSymbolPackages->'%(Filename)%(Extension)')" />
-    <FileSignInfo Include="@(DownloadedSymbolPackagesWithoutPaths->Distinct())" CertificateName="None" />
-
     <FileExtensionSignInfo Include=".msi" CertificateName="MicrosoftDotNet500" />
     <FileExtensionSignInfo Include=".pkg" CertificateName="8003" />
     <FileExtensionSignInfo Include=".deb;.rpm" CertificateName="LinuxSign" />
@@ -55,14 +44,30 @@
     <FileSignInfo Update="@(FileSignInfo->WithMetadataValue('CertificateName','Microsoft400'))" CertificateName="MicrosoftDotNet500" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
-  <ItemGroup Condition="'$(PrepareArtifacts)' == 'true'">
-    <ItemsToSignWithPaths Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.msi" />
-    <ItemsToSignWithPaths Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.exe" />
-    <ItemsToSignWithPaths Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.nupkg" />
-    <ItemsToSignWithPaths Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.zip" />
+  <!-- In build signing and publishing without a join point -->
+  <ItemGroup Condition="'$(SignAndPublishAsJoinPoint)' != 'true'">
+    <Artifact Include="$(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.tar.gz;
+                       $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.zip;
+                       $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.deb;
+                       $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.rpm;
+                       $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.pkg;
+                       $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.exe;
+                       $(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\*.msi"
+              Exclude="$(ArtifactsPackagesDir)**\Symbols.runtime.tar.gz"
+              IsShipping="$([System.String]::Copy('%(RecursiveDir)').StartsWith('Shipping'))">
+      <!-- Exclude wixpack.zip files from checksum generation -->
+      <ChecksumPath Condition="$([System.String]::Copy('%(Filename)%(Extension)').EndsWith('.wixpack.zip')) != 'true'">%(FullPath).sha512</ChecksumPath>
+    </Artifact>
+  </ItemGroup>
 
-    <ItemsToSignWithoutPaths Include="@(ItemsToSignWithPaths->'%(Filename)%(Extension)')" />
-    <ItemsToSignPostBuild Include="@(ItemsToSignWithoutPaths->Distinct())" Condition="'$(PostBuildSign)' == 'true'" />
-    <ItemsToSign Include="@(ItemsToSignWithPaths->Distinct())" Condition="'$(PostBuildSign)' != 'true'" />
+  <!-- Only the following artifacts should be signed.
+       Set SkipPublish=true as those artifacts are added again in Publishing.props. -->
+  <ItemGroup Condition="'$(SignAndPublishAsJoinPoint)' == 'true'">
+    <Artifact Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.msi;
+                       $(DownloadDirectory)**\*.exe;
+                       $(DownloadDirectory)**\*.nupkg;
+                       $(DownloadDirectory)**\*.zip"
+              SkipPublish="true" />
   </ItemGroup>
+
 </Project>
diff --git a/eng/Subsets.props b/eng/Subsets.props
index cbe9cfc7d73c9..e2772f05f1f71 100644
--- a/eng/Subsets.props
+++ b/eng/Subsets.props
@@ -198,7 +198,6 @@
     <SubsetName Include="Packs.Tests" Description="The framework pack tests." />
 
     <!-- Utility -->
-    <SubsetName Include="publish" OnDemand="true" Description="Generate asset manifests and prepare to publish to BAR." />
     <SubsetName Include="RegenerateDownloadTable" OnDemand="true" Description="Regenerates the nightly build download table" />
     <SubsetName Include="RegenerateThirdPartyNotices" OnDemand="true" Description="Regenerates the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.TXT file based on other repos' TPN files." />
     <SubsetName Include="tasks" OnDemand="true" Description="Build the repo local task projects." />
@@ -548,10 +547,6 @@
     <ProjectToBuild Include="@(TestProjectToBuild)" BuildInParallel="true" Test="true" Category="packs" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
-  <ItemGroup Condition="$(_subset.Contains('+publish+'))">
-    <ProjectToBuild Include="$(InstallerProjectRoot)prepare-artifacts.proj" Pack="true" Category="publish" />
-  </ItemGroup>
-
   <!-- Utility -->
   <ItemGroup Condition="$(_subset.Contains('+regeneratedownloadtable+'))">
     <ProjectToBuild Include="$(RepositoryEngineeringDir)regenerate-download-table.proj" Pack="true" />
diff --git a/eng/pipelines/official/jobs/prepare-signed-artifacts.yml b/eng/pipelines/official/jobs/prepare-signed-artifacts.yml
index 908f2b64c71c2..f4bfa85478d9d 100644
--- a/eng/pipelines/official/jobs/prepare-signed-artifacts.yml
+++ b/eng/pipelines/official/jobs/prepare-signed-artifacts.yml
@@ -46,10 +46,9 @@ jobs:
       checkDownloadedFiles: true
 
   - script: >-
-      build.cmd -ci
-      -subset publish
-      -configuration Release
+      build.cmd -sign -publish -ci -configuration Release
       /p:PublishRidAgnosticPackagesFromPlatform=${{ parameters.PublishRidAgnosticPackagesFromPlatform }}
+      /p:DownloadDirectory=$(Build.SourcesDirectory)\artifacts\PackageDownload\
       /p:OfficialBuildId=$(Build.BuildNumber)
       /p:SignType=$(SignType)
       /p:DotNetSignType=$(SignType)
diff --git a/eng/pipelines/runtime-official.yml b/eng/pipelines/runtime-official.yml
index 0cc897455e2e0..db129354eb7ec 100644
--- a/eng/pipelines/runtime-official.yml
+++ b/eng/pipelines/runtime-official.yml
@@ -589,10 +589,6 @@ extends:
           - SourceBuild_linux_x64
           jobParameters:
             nameSuffix: PortableSourceBuild
-            postBuildSteps:
-              - template: /eng/pipelines/common/upload-intermediate-artifacts-step.yml
-                parameters:
-                  name: SourceBuildPackages
             timeoutInMinutes: 95
 
       #
diff --git a/src/installer/Directory.Build.props b/src/installer/Directory.Build.props
index 33a094c082f79..3e898be20b7a8 100644
--- a/src/installer/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/src/installer/Directory.Build.props
@@ -16,10 +16,4 @@
     <DisableImplicitNuGetFallbackFolder>true</DisableImplicitNuGetFallbackFolder>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <!-- Construct the path to the sign project, so that signing can be called during prepare-artifacts -->
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <ArcadeSdkMSBuildProjectDir>$([System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName('$(ArcadeSdkBuildTasksAssembly)'))\..\</ArcadeSdkMSBuildProjectDir>
-    <ArcadeSdkSignProject>$(ArcadeSdkMSBuildProjectDir)Sign.proj</ArcadeSdkSignProject>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/installer/pkg/projects/Directory.Build.targets b/src/installer/pkg/projects/Directory.Build.targets
index 74420fa76bb1f..fcb2c60b44f65 100644
--- a/src/installer/pkg/projects/Directory.Build.targets
+++ b/src/installer/pkg/projects/Directory.Build.targets
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
       If we are stabilizing set the StableVersion property for the packages.
       Needs to happen in Directory.Build.targets to allow all the pkgproj's to set Version property first.
     -->
-    <StableVersion Condition="'$(IncludePreReleaseLabelInPackageVersion)' != 'true'">$(Version)</StableVersion>
+    <StableVersion Condition="'$(DotNetFinalVersionKind)' == 'release' and
+                              '$(SuppressFinalPackageVersion)' != 'true' and
+                              '$(IsShipping)' == 'true'">$(Version)</StableVersion>
 
     <!--
       Explicitly re-set the symbol package output path. The pkgproj files here end up importing the targets from
@@ -16,20 +18,6 @@
     <SymbolPackageOutputPath>$(PackageOutputPath)</SymbolPackageOutputPath>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <Target Name="SetTargetBasedPackageVersion"
-          BeforeTargets="GenerateNuSpec"
-          DependsOnTargets="GetProductVersions">
-    <PropertyGroup>
-      <Version>$(ProductVersion)</Version>
-      <!--
-        PackageVersion is normally calculated using Version during static property evaluation, but
-        we need some info from GetProductVersions, so it's too late to rely on that. We need to set
-        both in target evaluation, here.
-      -->
-      <PackageVersion>$(ProductVersion)</PackageVersion>
-    </PropertyGroup>
-  </Target>
-
   <!--
     Remove duplicate files returned by restore. The resolve task performs extra detection to pick up
     a PDB file for any file listed in the assets file. This causes duplicates if the assets file
diff --git a/src/installer/prepare-artifacts.proj b/src/installer/prepare-artifacts.proj
deleted file mode 100644
index f00a65b86896b..0000000000000
--- a/src/installer/prepare-artifacts.proj
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,319 +0,0 @@
-<Project Sdk="Microsoft.Build.NoTargets">
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <!-- Set IsStableBuild to mimic https://github.com/dotnet/arcade/blob/694d59f090b743f894779d04a7ffe11cbaf352e7/src/Microsoft.DotNet.Arcade.Sdk/tools/Publish.proj#L30-L31 -->
-    <IsStableBuild>false</IsStableBuild>
-    <IsStableBuild Condition="'$(DotNetFinalVersionKind)' == 'release'">true</IsStableBuild>
-
-    <ChecksumExtension>.sha512</ChecksumExtension>
-    <DownloadDirectory>$(ArtifactsDir)PackageDownload/</DownloadDirectory>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.Feed" Version="$(MicrosoftDotNetBuildTasksFeedVersion)" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.DotNet.VersionTools.Tasks" Version="$(MicrosoftDotNetVersionToolsTasksVersion)" />
-  </ItemGroup>
-
-  <!-- When doing post build sign, pull in the arcade sign.props file, which will
-       create some initial sign groups and then pulls in the repo's custom Signing.props overrides.
-       Before importing the signing props. Set PrepareArtifactst=true. Depending on context (SDK project vs. not),
-       the initial imports of livebuilds.targets and Configuration.props are already imported and thus cannot
-       be imported again. Without those imports, the globbing of files to sign will not work properly. -->
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <PrepareArtifacts>true</PrepareArtifacts>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-  <Import Project="../tools/Sign.props" Sdk="Microsoft.DotNet.Arcade.Sdk" />
-
-  <Import Project="$(RepositoryEngineeringDir)Publishing.props" Condition="Exists('$(RepositoryEngineeringDir)Publishing.props')" />
-
-  <UsingTask TaskName="GenerateChecksums" AssemblyFile="$(InstallerTasksAssemblyPath)" />
-
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <SuppressFinalPackageVersion>true</SuppressFinalPackageVersion>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-
-  <!-- Pulled from arcade's publish.proj see https://github.com/dotnet/arcade/issues/5790 for
-       issue on making this common in arcade so it doesn't have to be duplicated here -->
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <CollectionUri>$(SYSTEM_TEAMFOUNDATIONCOLLECTIONURI)</CollectionUri>
-
-    <!-- When we have dev.azure.com/<account>/ -->
-    <AzureDevOpsAccount Condition="$(CollectionUri.IndexOf('dev.azure.com')) >= 0">$(CollectionUri.Split('/')[3])</AzureDevOpsAccount>
-
-    <!-- When we have <account>.visualstudio.com -->
-    <AzureDevOpsAccount Condition="$(CollectionUri.IndexOf('visualstudio.com')) >= 0">$(CollectionUri.Split('.')[0].Split('/')[2])</AzureDevOpsAccount>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-
-  <!--
-    The new Maestro/BAR build model keeps separate Azure DevOps and GitHub build information.
-    The GitHub information will be extracted based on the Azure DevOps repository.
-  -->
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <ManifestBuildData Include="InitialAssetsLocation=$(SYSTEM_TEAMFOUNDATIONCOLLECTIONURI)$(SYSTEM_TEAMPROJECT)/_apis/build/builds/$(BUILD_BUILDID)/artifacts" />
-    <ManifestBuildData Include="AzureDevOpsBuildId=$(BUILD_BUILDID)" />
-    <ManifestBuildData Include="AzureDevOpsBuildDefinitionId=$(SYSTEM_DEFINITIONID)" />
-    <ManifestBuildData Include="AzureDevOpsAccount=$(AzureDevOpsAccount)" />
-    <ManifestBuildData Include="AzureDevOpsProject=$(SYSTEM_TEAMPROJECT)" />
-    <ManifestBuildData Include="AzureDevOpsBuildNumber=$(BUILD_BUILDNUMBER)" />
-    <ManifestBuildData Include="AzureDevOpsRepository=$(BUILD_REPOSITORY_URI)" />
-    <ManifestBuildData Include="AzureDevOpsBranch=$(BUILD_SOURCEBRANCH)" />
-  </ItemGroup>
-
-  <!-- 
-    Set metadata for assets that are not marked as NonShipping. 
-    This is used to determine if the asset should be shipped as part of .NET release.
-  -->
-  <ItemDefinitionGroup>
-    <ItemsToPush>
-      <ManifestArtifactData Condition="'$(ProducesDotNetReleaseShippingAssets)' == 'true'">DotNetReleaseShipping=true</ManifestArtifactData>
-    </ItemsToPush>
-  </ItemDefinitionGroup>
-
-  <!--
-    Run Arcade's signing project directly. The 'eng/Signing.props' extensibility props file checks
-    if '$(<StageName>)' == 'true' and points Arcade to the correct files.
-  -->
-  <Target Name="SignArtifacts"
-          Condition="'$(PostBuildSign)' != 'true'" >
-    <MSBuild
-      Projects="$(ArcadeSdkSignProject)"
-      Targets="Sign"
-      Properties="
-        DownloadDirectory=$(DownloadDirectory);
-        PrepareArtifacts=$(PrepareArtifacts)" />
-  </Target>
-
-  <!--
-    Take assets from the build jobs, prepare them for publishing (signing, arrangement) then upload
-    them to the pipeline for Arcade and custom steps to publish.
-  -->
-  <Target Name="PreparePublishToAzureBlobFeed"
-          AfterTargets="Build"
-          DependsOnTargets="GetProductVersions;FindDownloadedArtifacts;SignArtifacts;CreateChecksums">
-    <PropertyGroup>
-      <AssetManifestFilename>Manifest.xml</AssetManifestFilename>
-      <AssetManifestFile>$(ArtifactsLogDir)AssetManifest/$(AssetManifestFilename)</AssetManifestFile>
-
-      <ProductVersionTxtContents Condition="'$(StabilizePackageVersion)'=='true'">$(ProductionVersion)</ProductVersionTxtContents>
-      <ProductVersionTxtContents Condition="'$(StabilizePackageVersion)'!='true'">$(ProductVersion)</ProductVersionTxtContents>
-    </PropertyGroup>
-
-    <!-- Generate productVersion.txt containing the value of $(PackageVersion) -->
-    <WriteLinesToFile
-      File="$(ArtifactsShippingPackagesDir)productVersion.txt"
-      Lines="$(ProductVersionTxtContents)"
-      Overwrite="true"
-      Encoding="ASCII" />
-
-    <!-- Generate runtime-productVersion.txt containing the value of $(PackageVersion) -->
-    <WriteLinesToFile
-      File="$(ArtifactsShippingPackagesDir)runtime-productVersion.txt"
-      Lines="$(ProductVersionTxtContents)"
-      Overwrite="true"
-      Encoding="ASCII" />
-
-    <ItemGroup>
-      <ItemsToPush Remove="@(ItemsToPush)" />
-
-      <ItemsToPush Include="@(ShippingNupkgToPublishFile)" />
-      <ItemsToPush Include="@(NonShippingNupkgToPublishFile)" ManifestArtifactData="NonShipping=true" />
-      <ItemsToPush Include="@(SymbolNupkgToPublishFile)" />
-
-      <ItemsToPush
-        Include="@(UploadToBlobStorageFile)"
-        Exclude="@(NupkgToPublishFile);@(SymbolNupkgToPublishFile)">
-        <RelativeBlobPath>$(InstallersRelativePath)%(Filename)%(Extension)</RelativeBlobPath>
-        <PublishFlatContainer>true</PublishFlatContainer>
-      </ItemsToPush>
-
-      <ItemsToPush Include="@(GeneratedChecksumFile)">
-        <RelativeBlobPath>$(InstallersRelativePath)%(Filename)%(Extension)</RelativeBlobPath>
-        <Category>Checksum</Category>
-        <PublishFlatContainer>true</PublishFlatContainer>
-      </ItemsToPush>
-
-      <ItemsToPush Include="$(ArtifactsShippingPackagesDir)productVersion.txt">
-        <RelativeBlobPath>$(InstallersRelativePath)productVersion.txt</RelativeBlobPath>
-        <PublishFlatContainer>true</PublishFlatContainer>
-      </ItemsToPush>
-
-      <ItemsToPush Include="$(ArtifactsShippingPackagesDir)runtime-productVersion.txt">
-        <RelativeBlobPath>$(InstallersRelativePath)runtime-productVersion.txt</RelativeBlobPath>
-        <PublishFlatContainer>true</PublishFlatContainer>
-      </ItemsToPush>
-
-      <ItemsToPush Include="@(WorkloadsVSInsertionFile)">
-        <RelativeBlobPath>$(InstallersRelativePath)workloads/%(Filename)%(Extension)</RelativeBlobPath>
-        <PublishFlatContainer>true</PublishFlatContainer>
-      </ItemsToPush>
-
-      <!-- Source build intermediated packages will be pushed and signed by the sourcebuild leg. -->
-      <ItemsToPush Remove="@(ItemsToPush)" Condition="$([System.String]::new('%(Identity)').Contains('Microsoft.SourceBuild.Intermediate'))" />
-      <ItemsToSignPostBuild Remove="@(ItemsToSignPostBuild)" Condition="$([System.String]::new('%(Identity)').Contains('Microsoft.SourceBuild.Intermediate'))" />
-    </ItemGroup>
-
-    <!-- Push items to AzDO as build artifacts, generating the asset manifest as a side effect. -->
-    <PushToBuildStorage
-      AzureDevOpsCollectionUri="$(SYSTEM_TEAMFOUNDATIONCOLLECTIONURI)"
-      AzureDevOpsProject="$(SYSTEM_TEAMPROJECT)"
-      AzureDevOpsBuildId="$(BUILD_BUILDID)"
-      ItemsToSign="@(ItemsToSignPostBuild)"
-      StrongNameSignInfo="@(StrongNameSignInfo)"
-      FileSignInfo="@(FileSignInfo)"
-      FileExtensionSignInfo="@(FileExtensionSignInfo)"
-      ItemsToPush="@(ItemsToPush)"
-      ManifestBuildData="@(ManifestBuildData)"
-      ManifestRepoUri="$(BUILD_REPOSITORY_NAME)"
-      ManifestBranch="$(BUILD_SOURCEBRANCH)"
-      ManifestBuildId="$(BUILD_BUILDNUMBER)"
-      ManifestCommit="$(BUILD_SOURCEVERSION)"
-      IsStableBuild="$(IsStableBuild)"
-      AssetManifestPath="$(AssetManifestFile)" />
-
-    <Message Importance="High" Text="Complete!" />
-  </Target>
-
-  <!--
-    Look through the downloaded artifacts to figure out how to ship them. Creates item groups for
-    other types of publishing to use.
-
-    DownloadDirectory is expected to have some directory inside, which then contains a dir for each
-    build job name. For example, this nupkg would be found:
-
-      $(DownloadDirectory)IntermediateUnsignedArtifacts\Windows_x64\Shipping\a.nupkg
-  -->
-  <Target Name="FindDownloadedArtifacts">
-
-    <ItemGroup>
-      <DownloadedArtifactFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**" />
-
-      <Error
-        Condition="'@(DownloadedArtifactFile)' == ''"
-        Text="No downloaded artifacts found." />
-
-      <DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.symbols.nupkg" />
-      <DownloadedWixPdbFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.wixpdb" />
-      <DownloadedWixpackFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.wixpack.zip" Condition="'$(PostBuildSign)' != 'true'" />
-      <DownloadedWorkloadsVSInsertionFile Include="$(DownloadDirectory)*\workloads-vs\**\*" />
-      <DownloadedNupkgFile
-        Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*.nupkg"
-        Exclude="@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
-
-      <!-- Add files that are not affected by filtering. -->
-      <UploadToBlobStorageFile
-        Include="@(DownloadedArtifactFile)"
-        Exclude="@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile);@(DownloadedNupkgFile);@(DownloadedWixPdbFile);@(DownloadedWorkloadsVSInsertionFile);@(DownloadedWixpackFile)" />
-
-      <!--
-        Filter out the RID-specific (Runtime) nupkgs and RID-agnostic nupkgs. RID-specific packages
-        are published from every job. RID-agnostic nupkgs are built with the same ID/version by
-        every job, so one specific job's outputs must be picked to sign and publish.
-      -->
-
-      <!-- RID-specific framework packs. -->
-      <RuntimeNupkgFile
-        Include="
-          $(DownloadDirectory)**\Microsoft.*.Runtime.*.nupkg;
-          $(DownloadDirectory)**\Microsoft.*.App.Host.*.nupkg;
-          $(DownloadDirectory)**\Microsoft.*.App.Crossgen2.*.nupkg"
-        Exclude="@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
-
-      <!-- VS insertion packages, carrying RID-specific installers. -->
-      <RuntimeNupkgFile
-        Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\VS.Redist.Common.*.nupkg"
-        Exclude="@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
-
-      <!--
-        Workloads VS insertion artifacts produced by src/workloads/workloads.csproj. Only grab
-        the zip artifacts as they're grouped by SDK feature band which correlates with specific VS versions.
-      -->
-      <WorkloadsVSInsertionFile
-        Include="
-          $(DownloadDirectory)*\workloads-vs\**\*.zip"/>
-
-      <!--
-        Runtime packages associated with some identity packages. Need to exclude "runtime.native.*"
-        because Libraries produces some "runtime.native.Foo" packages with
-        "runtime.<rid>.runtime.native.Foo" identity packages.
-      -->
-      <RuntimeNupkgFile
-        Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\runtime.*.nupkg"
-        Exclude="
-          $(DownloadDirectory)**\runtime.native.*.nupkg;
-          @(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
-
-      <!--
-        Packages that aren't matched above as RID-specific are considered RID-agnostic. Also include
-        the AllConfigurations packages from the Libraries build.
-      -->
-      <RidAgnosticNupkgToPublishFile
-        Include="
-          $(DownloadDirectory)**\Microsoft.NET.Workload.Mono.Toolchain.*Manifest-*.nupkg;
-          $(DownloadDirectory)**\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WebAssembly.Pack.*.nupkg;
-          $(DownloadDirectory)*\$(PublishRidAgnosticPackagesFromPlatform)\**\*.nupkg;
-          $(DownloadDirectory)*\*AllConfigurations\**\*.nupkg"
-        Exclude="@(RuntimeNupkgFile);@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
-
-      <TransportPackagesToPublishFile
-        Include="$(DownloadDirectory)**\*Transport*.nupkg"
-        Exclude="@(RuntimeNupkgFile);@(RidAgnosticNupkgToPublishFile);@(DownloadedSymbolNupkgFile)" />
-
-      <NupkgToPublishFile Include="@(RuntimeNupkgFile);@(RidAgnosticNupkgToPublishFile);@(TransportPackagesToPublishFile)" />
-
-      <!--
-        Assuming all symbol packages ship and can be found by turning .nupkg => .symbols.nupkg, find
-        them. Don't check for missing symbol packages here: some nupkgs don't have them for valid
-        reasons, such as the VS insertion packages that transport MSIs. Symbol package validation
-        will check for symbol completeness with file-by-file granularity rather than looking for
-        missing symbols.nupkg files: https://github.com/dotnet/arcade/issues/2499.
-
-        Handles several conventions:
-        * NonShipping packages have symbol nupkgs that are Shipping.
-        * Shipping packages have symbol packages in a "symbols" subdirectory.
-      -->
-      <PotentialSymbolNupkgToPublishFile
-        Include="
-          @(NupkgToPublishFile->Replace('\NonShipping\', '\Shipping\')->Replace('.nupkg', '.symbols.nupkg'));
-          @(NupkgToPublishFile->Replace('\NonShipping\', '\NonShipping\symbols\')->Replace('.nupkg', '.symbols.nupkg'));
-          @(NupkgToPublishFile->Replace('\Shipping\', '\Shipping\symbols\')->Replace('.nupkg', '.symbols.nupkg'))" />
-
-      <SymbolNupkgToPublishFile
-        Include="@(PotentialSymbolNupkgToPublishFile -> Distinct())"
-        Condition="Exists('%(Identity)')" />
-
-      <!-- Split nupkgs into shipping/nonshipping for BAR categorization. -->
-      <ShippingNupkgToPublishFile
-        Include="@(NupkgToPublishFile)"
-        Condition="$([System.String]::new('%(Identity)').Contains('\Shipping\'))" />
-
-      <NonShippingNupkgToPublishFile
-        Include="@(NupkgToPublishFile)"
-        Exclude="@(ShippingNupkgToPublishFile)" />
-
-    </ItemGroup>
-
-    <Error
-      Condition="'@(SymbolNupkgToPublishFile)' == ''"
-      Text="No symbol packages found." />
-
-    <!--
-      Duplicate RuntimeNupkgFile items mean artifact upload will fail, but only after another hour
-      of signing. Detect this early. It's possible to automatically "fix" this with Distinct(),
-      however the patterns should be fairly specific: this is likely a build infra mistake that
-      should be corrected.
-    -->
-    <Error
-      Text="Duplicate RuntimeNupkgFile entries for: %(RuntimeNupkgFile.Identity)"
-      Condition="@(RuntimeNupkgFile->Count()) &gt; 1" />
-  </Target>
-
-  <Target Name="CreateChecksums">
-    <ItemGroup>
-      <ArtifactsForGeneratingChecksums Include="@(UploadToBlobStorageFile)"
-                                       DestinationPath="%(FullPath)$(ChecksumExtension)" />
-      <GeneratedChecksumFile Include="@(ArtifactsForGeneratingChecksums -> '%(DestinationPath)')" />
-    </ItemGroup>
-
-    <GenerateChecksums Items="@(ArtifactsForGeneratingChecksums)" />
-  </Target>
-
-</Project>
diff --git a/src/installer/tests/Directory.Build.targets b/src/installer/tests/Directory.Build.targets
index ecd79411081d4..9cd2ce6b9c7ed 100644
--- a/src/installer/tests/Directory.Build.targets
+++ b/src/installer/tests/Directory.Build.targets
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
   <Target Name="SetupTestContextVariables"
           Condition="'$(IsTestProject)' == 'true'"
           DependsOnTargets="
-            GetProductVersions;
             GetNETCoreAppRuntimePackVersion;
             DetermineTestOutputDirectory"
           BeforeTargets="Build">
diff --git a/src/mono/browser/browser.proj b/src/mono/browser/browser.proj
index 38d6f035e6cf3..f412353247160 100644
--- a/src/mono/browser/browser.proj
+++ b/src/mono/browser/browser.proj
@@ -533,12 +533,20 @@
     <_RollupInputs Include="$(BrowserProjectRoot)runtime/*.js"/>
   </ItemGroup>
 
-  <Target Name="SetMonoRollupEnvironment" DependsOnTargets="GetProductVersions">
+  <Target Name="SetMonoRollupEnvironment">
+    <!-- Retrieve the runtime pack product version. -->
+    <MSBuild Projects="$(RepoRoot)src/installer/pkg/sfx/Microsoft.NETCore.App/Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.sfxproj"
+             Targets="ReturnProductVersion"
+             Properties="Crossgen2SdkOverridePropsPath=;
+                         Crossgen2SdkOverrideTargetsPath=">
+      <Output TaskParameter="TargetOutputs" PropertyName="RuntimePackProductVersion" />
+    </MSBuild>
+
     <ItemGroup>
       <_MonoRollupEnvironmentVariable Include="Configuration:$(Configuration)" />
       <_MonoRollupEnvironmentVariable Include="NativeBinDir:$(NativeBinDir)" />
       <_MonoRollupEnvironmentVariable Include="WasmObjDir:$(WasmObjDir)" />
-      <_MonoRollupEnvironmentVariable Include="ProductVersion:$(ProductVersion)" />
+      <_MonoRollupEnvironmentVariable Include="ProductVersion:$(RuntimePackProductVersion)" />
       <_MonoRollupEnvironmentVariable Include="WasmEnableThreads:$(WasmEnableThreads)" />
       <_MonoRollupEnvironmentVariable Include="WASM_ENABLE_SIMD:1" Condition="'$(WasmEnableSIMD)' != 'false'" />
       <_MonoRollupEnvironmentVariable Include="WASM_ENABLE_SIMD:0" Condition="'$(WasmEnableSIMD)' == 'false'" />
diff --git a/src/mono/wasm/templates/Microsoft.NET.Runtime.WebAssembly.Templates.csproj b/src/mono/wasm/templates/Microsoft.NET.Runtime.WebAssembly.Templates.csproj
index 0a4927e350fe7..92c3a12bc4ce0 100644
--- a/src/mono/wasm/templates/Microsoft.NET.Runtime.WebAssembly.Templates.csproj
+++ b/src/mono/wasm/templates/Microsoft.NET.Runtime.WebAssembly.Templates.csproj
@@ -24,10 +24,5 @@
 
   <Target Name="CreateManifestResourceNames" />
   <Target Name="CoreCompile" />
-  <Target Name="_SetProductVersion" DependsOnTargets="GetProductVersions" BeforeTargets="Pack">
-    <PropertyGroup>
-      <PackageVersion>$(ProductVersion)</PackageVersion>
-    </PropertyGroup>
-  </Target>
 
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/native/corehost/corehost.proj b/src/native/corehost/corehost.proj
index 026cff6928567..ab43e75f9b3e8 100644
--- a/src/native/corehost/corehost.proj
+++ b/src/native/corehost/corehost.proj
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <IncrementalNativeBuild Condition="'$(IncrementalNativeBuild)' == ''">true</IncrementalNativeBuild>
-    <BuildCoreHostDependsOn>GetProductVersions;GenerateRuntimeVersionFile</BuildCoreHostDependsOn>
+    <BuildCoreHostDependsOn>GenerateRuntimeVersionFile</BuildCoreHostDependsOn>
     <BuildCoreHostDependsOn Condition="'$(EnableSourceControlManagerQueries)' == 'true'">$(BuildCoreHostDependsOn);InitializeSourceControlInformationFromSourceControlManager</BuildCoreHostDependsOn>
     <IntermediateOutputRootPath>$(ArtifactsObjDir)$(OutputRID).$(Configuration)\</IntermediateOutputRootPath>
     <!-- Global location for version files -->
diff --git a/src/tasks/installer.tasks/GenerateChecksums.cs b/src/tasks/installer.tasks/GenerateChecksums.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index f9e06415523b5..0000000000000
--- a/src/tasks/installer.tasks/GenerateChecksums.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
-// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
-
-using Microsoft.Build.Framework;
-using System;
-using System.IO;
-using System.Security.Cryptography;
-
-namespace Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks
-{
-    public class GenerateChecksums : BuildTask
-    {
-        /// <summary>
-        /// An item collection of files for which to generate checksums.  Each item must have metadata
-        /// 'DestinationPath' that specifies the path of the checksum file to create.
-        /// </summary>
-        [Required]
-        public ITaskItem[] Items { get; set; }
-
-        public override bool Execute()
-        {
-            foreach (ITaskItem item in Items)
-            {
-                try
-                {
-                    string destinationPath = item.GetMetadata("DestinationPath");
-                    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(destinationPath))
-                    {
-                        throw new Exception($"Metadata 'DestinationPath' is missing for item '{item.ItemSpec}'.");
-                    }
-
-                    if (!File.Exists(item.ItemSpec))
-                    {
-                        throw new Exception($"The file '{item.ItemSpec}' does not exist.");
-                    }
-
-                    Log.LogMessage(
-                        MessageImportance.High,
-                        "Generating checksum for '{0}' into '{1}'...",
-                        item.ItemSpec,
-                        destinationPath);
-
-                    using (FileStream stream = File.OpenRead(item.ItemSpec))
-                    {
-                        using(HashAlgorithm hashAlgorithm = SHA512.Create())
-                        {
-                            byte[] hash = hashAlgorithm.ComputeHash(stream);
-                            string checksum = BitConverter.ToString(hash).Replace("-", string.Empty);
-                            File.WriteAllText(destinationPath, checksum);
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-                catch (Exception e)
-                {
-                    // We have 2 log calls because we want a nice error message but we also want to capture the
-                    // callstack in the log.
-                    Log.LogError("An exception occurred while trying to generate a checksum for '{0}'.", item.ItemSpec);
-                    Log.LogMessage(MessageImportance.Low, e.ToString());
-                    return false;
-                }
-            }
-
-            return true;
-        }
-    }
-}