diff --git a/scripts/verify-nupkgs.ps1 b/scripts/verify-nupkgs.ps1
index 4d82d1bb8a..567a43c851 100644
--- a/scripts/verify-nupkgs.ps1
+++ b/scripts/verify-nupkgs.ps1
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ function Verify-Nuget-Packages($packageDirectory, $version)
         "Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" = 16;
         "Microsoft.TestPlatform" = 602;
         "Microsoft.TestPlatform.Build" = 21;
-        "Microsoft.TestPlatform.CLI" = 499;
+        "Microsoft.TestPlatform.CLI" = 479;
         "Microsoft.TestPlatform.Extensions.TrxLogger" = 35;
         "Microsoft.TestPlatform.ObjectModel" = 93;
         "Microsoft.TestPlatform.AdapterUtilities" = 34;
diff --git a/src/package/nuspec/TestPlatform.CLI.nuspec b/src/package/nuspec/TestPlatform.CLI.nuspec
index e3d1c20172..a503721967 100644
--- a/src/package/nuspec/TestPlatform.CLI.nuspec
+++ b/src/package/nuspec/TestPlatform.CLI.nuspec
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
     <!-- Add a third party notice file -->
     <file src="ThirdPartyNotices.txt" target="" />
     
-    <file src="$TargetFramework$\**\*.*" exclude="**\*.pdb" target="contentFiles\any\$TargetFramework$" />
+    <!-- excluding dbghelp and cpp as they cannot be re-distributed with sdk, but need to be distributed with VS -->
+    <file src="$TargetFramework$\**\*.*" exclude="**\*.pdb;**\dbghelp.dll;**\*TestTools.CppUnitTestFramework*" target="contentFiles\any\$TargetFramework$" />
   </files>
 </package>