diff --git a/eng/pipelines/templates/steps/install-dotnet.yml b/eng/pipelines/templates/steps/install-dotnet.yml
index c2d0a9774e08..ac9703cf134d 100644
--- a/eng/pipelines/templates/steps/install-dotnet.yml
+++ b/eng/pipelines/templates/steps/install-dotnet.yml
@@ -8,17 +8,6 @@ steps:
     retryCountOnTaskFailure: 3
     inputs:
       useGlobalJson: true
-
-  # We install .NET 6.0.x runtime in addition to .NET coming from global.json because most of our tools target 6.0.x.
-  # Once we migrate all tools to a newer .NET version, we should update this to install that version instead.
-  - task: UseDotNet@2
-    displayName: "Use .NET runtime 6.0.x"
-    retryCountOnTaskFailure: 3
-    inputs:
-      packageType: runtime
-      version: 6.0.x
-      # performMultiLevelLookup comes into play when given .NET executable target runtime is different
-      # than the installed .NET SDK. Without this, such runtime would not be found.
       performMultiLevelLookup: true
 
 # Future work: add NuGet packages caching. See:
diff --git a/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.Tests/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.Tests.csproj b/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.Tests/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.Tests.csproj
index 5054e5ad2854..b0827d761c69 100644
--- a/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.Tests/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.Tests.csproj
+++ b/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.Tests/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.Tests.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>net7.0</TargetFramework>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <WarningsAsErrors>Nullable</WarningsAsErrors>
     <IsPackable>false</IsPackable>
diff --git a/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.Tests/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.Tests.csproj b/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.Tests/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.Tests.csproj
index 8dbda797776a..73ceb21c9328 100644
--- a/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.Tests/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.Tests.csproj
+++ b/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.Tests/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.Tests.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>net7.0</TargetFramework>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <WarningsAsErrors>Nullable</WarningsAsErrors>
     <IsPackable>false</IsPackable>
diff --git a/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.csproj b/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.csproj
index 6ac4695ec593..514ba09fb3e3 100644
--- a/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.csproj
+++ b/tools/code-owners-parser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners/Azure.Sdk.Tools.RetrieveCodeOwners.csproj
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>net7.0</TargetFramework>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <WarningsAsErrors>Nullable</WarningsAsErrors>
     <PackAsTool>true</PackAsTool>
diff --git a/tools/code-owners-parser/CodeOwnersParser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.csproj b/tools/code-owners-parser/CodeOwnersParser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.csproj
index dc90d68b1c66..648c1766bbcf 100644
--- a/tools/code-owners-parser/CodeOwnersParser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.csproj
+++ b/tools/code-owners-parser/CodeOwnersParser/Azure.Sdk.Tools.CodeOwnersParser.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>net7.0</TargetFramework>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <WarningsAsErrors>Nullable</WarningsAsErrors>
     <IsPackable>false</IsPackable>