diff --git a/build_projects/update-dependencies/Program.cs b/build_projects/update-dependencies/Program.cs
index 6374b610f..62dcd0ed5 100644
--- a/build_projects/update-dependencies/Program.cs
+++ b/build_projects/update-dependencies/Program.cs
@@ -64,13 +64,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.DotNet.Scripts
 
         private static IDependencyUpdater CreateProjectJsonUpdater()
         {
-            const string noUpdateFileName = ".noautoupdate";
-
-            IEnumerable<string> projectJsonFiles = Enumerable.Union(
-                Directory.GetFiles(Dirs.RepoRoot, "project.json", SearchOption.AllDirectories),
-                Directory.GetFiles(Path.Combine(Dirs.RepoRoot, @"src\dotnet\commands\dotnet-new"), "project.json.template", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
-                .Where(p => !File.Exists(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(p), noUpdateFileName)) &&
-                    !Path.GetDirectoryName(p).EndsWith("CSharp_Web", StringComparison.Ordinal));
+            IEnumerable<string> projectJsonFiles = GetProjectJsonsToUpdate();
 
             return new ProjectJsonUpdater(projectJsonFiles)
             {
@@ -78,6 +72,17 @@ namespace Microsoft.DotNet.Scripts
             };
         }
 
+        private static IEnumerable<string> GetProjectJsonsToUpdate()
+        {
+            const string noUpdateFileName = ".noautoupdate";
+
+            return Enumerable.Union(
+                Directory.GetFiles(Dirs.RepoRoot, "project.json", SearchOption.AllDirectories),
+                Directory.GetFiles(Path.Combine(Dirs.RepoRoot, @"src\dotnet\commands\dotnet-new"), "project.json.template", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
+                .Where(p => !File.Exists(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(p), noUpdateFileName)) &&
+                    !Path.GetDirectoryName(p).EndsWith("CSharp_Web", StringComparison.Ordinal));
+        }
+
         private static IDependencyUpdater CreateRegexUpdater(string repoRelativePath, string dependencyPropertyName, string packageId)
         {
             return new FileRegexPackageUpdater()
diff --git a/build_projects/update-dependencies/update-dependencies.ps1 b/build_projects/update-dependencies/update-dependencies.ps1
index 4ce5ea223..04b890b34 100644
--- a/build_projects/update-dependencies/update-dependencies.ps1
+++ b/build_projects/update-dependencies/update-dependencies.ps1
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ if($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "Failed to install stage0" }
 # Put the stage0 on the path
 $env:PATH = "$env:DOTNET_INSTALL_DIR;$env:PATH"
 
-# Restore the build_projects
-Write-Host "Restoring Build projects..."
-pushd "$RepoRoot\build_projects"
+# Restore the app
+Write-Host "Restoring update-dependencies..."
+pushd "$AppPath"
 dotnet restore
 if($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "Failed to restore" }
 popd