diff --git a/ports/azure-core-cpp/add-ws232.patch b/ports/azure-core-cpp/add-ws232.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3628e89c97..0000000000
--- a/ports/azure-core-cpp/add-ws232.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/sdk/core/azure-core/CMakeLists.txt b/sdk/core/azure-core/CMakeLists.txt
-index c536948..c94441b 100644
---- a/sdk/core/azure-core/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/sdk/core/azure-core/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -170,6 +170,9 @@ endif()
- 
- if(BUILD_TRANSPORT_CURL)
-   target_link_libraries(azure-core PUBLIC CURL::libcurl)
-+  if(WIN32)
-+    target_link_libraries(azure-core PRIVATE Ws2_32)
-+  endif()
- endif()
- if(BUILD_TRANSPORT_WINHTTP)
-   target_link_libraries(azure-core PRIVATE winhttp)
diff --git a/ports/azure-core-cpp/portfile.cmake b/ports/azure-core-cpp/portfile.cmake
index c343c2e884..280c6597c4 100644
--- a/ports/azure-core-cpp/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/azure-core-cpp/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO Azure/azure-sdk-for-cpp
-    REF azure-core_1.7.2
-    SHA512 f24d02bf34f8be665e08a9a2799498f78daf6103a0ac5c10d79dc6b7b4461dac8ea2f91088e11bc90d0c74b59a59dc1e6361ad053718fb6da6a0691a9ac314a6
-    PATCHES
-        add-ws232.patch # https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-cpp/pull/4127
+    REF azure-core_1.8.0
+    SHA512 13d49b79dbc9e5c2fd8ce019e76b2ba92258174f7b12945eae67c7451548ada4afc059023b5092c3de7ce77bc4bb0954a5c483b8451aeefde4a3133401ace632
 )
 
 vcpkg_check_features(
diff --git a/ports/azure-core-cpp/vcpkg.json b/ports/azure-core-cpp/vcpkg.json
index a2ed2b11be..19f6d21d63 100644
--- a/ports/azure-core-cpp/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/azure-core-cpp/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "azure-core-cpp",
-  "version-semver": "1.7.2",
-  "port-version": 2,
+  "version-semver": "1.8.0",
   "description": [
     "Microsoft Azure Core SDK for C++",
     "This library provides shared primitives, abstractions, and helpers for modern Azure SDK client libraries written in the C++."
@@ -70,7 +69,8 @@
         {
           "name": "azure-core-cpp",
           "default-features": false
-        }
+        },
+        "wil"
       ]
     }
   }
diff --git a/ports/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp/portfile.cmake b/ports/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp/portfile.cmake
index f333cffe3d..de527c389e 100644
--- a/ports/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO Azure/azure-sdk-for-cpp
-    REF azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry_1.0.0-beta.3
-    SHA512 184c275cdbea0384b7f5e26258828101f7cf5b6e376305e396201c7f43676f04583d8095f42d79e417a479eab0f2042b0603cfac381ab044049fa3a92c53df5d
+    REF azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry_1.0.0-beta.4
+    SHA512 645c616fe54024f30a6e4b9c2626bfeaf906086be7bbeccc4a1155178670fb70d9818938db2f9fa8e3b9593ca45e0b10042dcd67fde04d2542f6f72a74884697
 )
 
 vcpkg_cmake_configure(
diff --git a/ports/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp/vcpkg.json b/ports/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp/vcpkg.json
index 631965ec6f..43f19f7662 100644
--- a/ports/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp",
-  "version-semver": "1.0.0-beta.3",
+  "version-semver": "1.0.0-beta.4",
   "description": [
     "Microsoft Azure Core Tracing OpenTelemetry SDK for C++",
     "This library provides support for modern Azure SDK client libraries written in C++ to leverage OpenTelemetry APIs."
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     {
       "name": "azure-core-cpp",
       "default-features": false,
-      "version>=": "1.7.0-beta.1"
+      "version>=": "1.8.0"
     },
     {
       "name": "opentelemetry-cpp",
diff --git a/versions/a-/azure-core-cpp.json b/versions/a-/azure-core-cpp.json
index dde7d9269d..5c9a1330c8 100644
--- a/versions/a-/azure-core-cpp.json
+++ b/versions/a-/azure-core-cpp.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "a18e2b1efaf5843b0eb5fe27a88c4306d5572970",
+      "version-semver": "1.8.0",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "3e84299750d32b17b16b8d795a66937851564d6a",
       "version-semver": "1.7.2",
diff --git a/versions/a-/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp.json b/versions/a-/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp.json
index 18ef57de32..9c465dd273 100644
--- a/versions/a-/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp.json
+++ b/versions/a-/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "a17fe14abb083b59b9ef5d25157a6cd85acb3ee9",
+      "version-semver": "1.0.0-beta.4",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "c6c807cb48e2dcdd3ed49e058822402cf1c71d79",
       "version-semver": "1.0.0-beta.3",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index f3b2480709..58dbeba0f2 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -365,11 +365,11 @@
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "azure-core-cpp": {
-      "baseline": "1.7.2",
-      "port-version": 2
+      "baseline": "1.8.0",
+      "port-version": 0
     },
     "azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry-cpp": {
-      "baseline": "1.0.0-beta.3",
+      "baseline": "1.0.0-beta.4",
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "azure-identity-cpp": {