diff --git a/sdk/communication/azure-communication-chat/dev_requirements.txt b/sdk/communication/azure-communication-chat/dev_requirements.txt
index f0af02f5882f..1281667d25f3 100644
--- a/sdk/communication/azure-communication-chat/dev_requirements.txt
+++ b/sdk/communication/azure-communication-chat/dev_requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 -e ../../../tools/azure-devtools
 -e ../../../tools/azure-sdk-tools
--e ../../core/azure-core
 ../azure-communication-nspkg
 -e ../azure-communication-administration
 aiohttp>=3.0; python_version >= '3.5'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/sdk/communication/azure-mgmt-communication/setup.py b/sdk/communication/azure-mgmt-communication/setup.py
index d26819578f5a..078bb85da2ab 100644
--- a/sdk/communication/azure-mgmt-communication/setup.py
+++ b/sdk/communication/azure-mgmt-communication/setup.py
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
         'msrest>=0.5.0',
         'msrestazure>=0.4.32,<2.0.0',
         'azure-common~=1.1',
+        "azure-core<2.0.0,>=1.2.2"
     ],
     extras_require={
         ":python_version<'3.0'": ['azure-mgmt-nspkg'],