diff --git a/Directory.Build.props b/Directory.Build.props
index 816c15718c9..ff4e3615640 100644
--- a/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/Directory.Build.props
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@
 
     <!-- Enable reproducible build per binskim -->
     <Deterministic>true</Deterministic>
+
+    <!-- The minimum .NET Framework version supported by templating packages. -->
+    <NetFrameworkMinimum>net472</NetFrameworkMinimum>
+
+    <!-- Only build the latest .NETCoreApp TFM when building source-only. -->
+    <NetMinimum Condition="'$(DotNetBuildSourceOnly)' == 'true'">$(NetCurrent)</NetMinimum>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup Condition="'$(EnableAnalyzers)' == 'true'">
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Abstractions/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Abstractions.csproj b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Abstractions/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Abstractions.csproj
index 618fe20653d..16cfae321af 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Abstractions/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Abstractions.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Abstractions/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Abstractions.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetCurrent);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkCurrent)</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetMinimum);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkMinimum)</TargetFrameworks>
     <Description>Contracts for extending Template Engine</Description>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>true</EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.Contracts/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.Contracts.csproj b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.Contracts/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.Contracts.csproj
index a5976a0745d..24fe9d48e8c 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.Contracts/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.Contracts.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.Contracts/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.Contracts.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetCurrent);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkCurrent)</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetMinimum);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkMinimum)</TargetFrameworks>
     <Description>Contracts for extending Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core</Description>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>true</EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.csproj b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.csproj
index 1d1030ee839..93646ed46f5 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Core.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetCurrent);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkCurrent)</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetMinimum);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkMinimum)</TargetFrameworks>
     <Description>Common operations for instantiating templates using forward-only input stream operations</Description>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>true</EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Edge/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Edge.csproj b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Edge/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Edge.csproj
index 4e2f31cc381..7581ff66ca9 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Edge/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Edge.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Edge/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Edge.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetCurrent);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkCurrent)</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetMinimum);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkMinimum)</TargetFrameworks>
     <Description>Helper package for adding Template Engine to consuming applications</Description>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>true</EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.IDE/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.IDE.csproj b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.IDE/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.IDE.csproj
index 3d51d28f92f..045baeb80d0 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.IDE/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.IDE.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.IDE/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.IDE.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetCurrent);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkCurrent)</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetMinimum);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkMinimum)</TargetFrameworks>
     <Description>Helper package for adding Template Engine to IDEs</Description>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>true</EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Orchestrator.RunnableProjects/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Orchestrator.RunnableProjects.csproj b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Orchestrator.RunnableProjects/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Orchestrator.RunnableProjects.csproj
index 32609e9dc4d..9f091fd4ae3 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Orchestrator.RunnableProjects/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Orchestrator.RunnableProjects.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Orchestrator.RunnableProjects/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Orchestrator.RunnableProjects.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetCurrent);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkCurrent)</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetMinimum);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkMinimum)</TargetFrameworks>
     <Description>An extension for Template Engine that allows projects that still run to be used as templates</Description>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Utils/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Utils.csproj b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Utils/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Utils.csproj
index 8ca4128f300..75d8fe8c312 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Utils/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Utils.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Utils/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Utils.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetCurrent);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkCurrent)</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetMinimum);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkMinimum)</TargetFrameworks>
     <Description>Components used by all Template Engine extensions and consumers</Description>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>true</EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.Common/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.Common.csproj b/src/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.Common/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.Common.csproj
index 8e5c9cfec83..65f7625bc69 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.Common/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.Common.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.Common/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.Common.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetCurrent);$(NetFrameworkCurrent)</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetMinimum);$(NetFrameworkMinimum)</TargetFrameworks>
     <Description>Components used by the template discovery tool, and also used for related functionality in the CLI.</Description>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>true</EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>
diff --git a/test/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TestHelper/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TestHelper.csproj b/test/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TestHelper/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TestHelper.csproj
index 7e8440c2f07..340805c4fa7 100644
--- a/test/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TestHelper/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TestHelper.csproj
+++ b/test/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TestHelper/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TestHelper.csproj
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   <!-- Don't set IsTestUtilityProject=true because this project is referenced by tools and would otherwise be filtered out. -->
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetCurrent);$(NetFrameworkCurrent)</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetMinimum);$(NetFrameworkMinimum)</TargetFrameworks>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <IsShipping>false</IsShipping>
     <EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>true</EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.CLI/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.CLI.csproj b/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.CLI/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.CLI.csproj
index c3778a89d8e..41225d3e7c3 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.CLI/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.CLI.csproj
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.CLI/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.CLI.csproj
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
-    <TargetFramework>$(NetCurrent)</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>$(NetMinimum)</TargetFramework>
     <Description>A dotnet CLI tool with commands for template authoring.</Description>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <PackAsTool>true</PackAsTool>
     <ToolCommandName>dotnet-template-authoring</ToolCommandName>
+    <RollForward>Major</RollForward>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateApiVerifier/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateApiVerifier.csproj b/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateApiVerifier/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateApiVerifier.csproj
index e496990fa04..9da576e4472 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateApiVerifier/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateApiVerifier.csproj
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateApiVerifier/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateApiVerifier.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>$(NetCurrent)</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>$(NetMinimum)</TargetFramework>
     <Description>The extension of templates verification engine enabling verification testing through dotnet template engine API.</Description>
     <EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>true</EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateVerifier/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateVerifier.csproj b/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateVerifier/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateVerifier.csproj
index 36d531a87fa..b2501c50718 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateVerifier/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateVerifier.csproj
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateVerifier/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Authoring.TemplateVerifier.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>$(NetCurrent)</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>$(NetMinimum)</TargetFramework>
     <Description>The verification engine for the templates for .NET template engine.</Description>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>true</EnablePublicApiAnalyzer>
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TemplateLocalizer.Core/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TemplateLocalizer.Core.csproj b/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TemplateLocalizer.Core/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TemplateLocalizer.Core.csproj
index f2038dda6a4..98e89ab25d0 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TemplateLocalizer.Core/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TemplateLocalizer.Core.csproj
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TemplateLocalizer.Core/Microsoft.TemplateEngine.TemplateLocalizer.Core.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetCurrent);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkCurrent)</TargetFrameworks>
+    <TargetFrameworks>$(NetMinimum);netstandard2.0;$(NetFrameworkMinimum)</TargetFrameworks>
     <Description>The core API for Template Localizer tool.</Description>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <AllowUnsafeBlocks>true</AllowUnsafeBlocks>
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.TemplateDiscovery/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.TemplateDiscovery.csproj b/tools/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.TemplateDiscovery/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.TemplateDiscovery.csproj
index 70687948f0a..47f44840b47 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.TemplateDiscovery/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.TemplateDiscovery.csproj
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.TemplateDiscovery/Microsoft.TemplateSearch.TemplateDiscovery.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>$(NetCurrent)</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>$(NetMinimum)</TargetFramework>
     <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
     <IsPackable>true</IsPackable>
     <IsShipping>false</IsShipping>