diff --git a/plugins/tech/azure/pom.xml b/plugins/tech/azure/pom.xml
index 50abe19e190..67d7083116b 100755
--- a/plugins/tech/azure/pom.xml
+++ b/plugins/tech/azure/pom.xml
@@ -35,25 +35,12 @@
 
     <dependencyManagement>
         <dependencies>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                <artifactId>netty-bom</artifactId>
-                <version>${netty.version}</version>
-                <type>pom</type>
-                <scope>import</scope>
-            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
                 <artifactId>azure-sdk-bom</artifactId>
                 <version>${azure-sdk-bom.version}</version>
                 <type>pom</type>
                 <scope>import</scope>
-                <exclusions>
-                    <exclusion>
-                        <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>*</artifactId>
-                    </exclusion>
-                </exclusions>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.hop</groupId>
@@ -68,38 +55,7 @@
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
-            <artifactId>azure-core-http-netty</artifactId>
-            <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
-            <artifactId>azure-identity</artifactId>
-            <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
-            <artifactId>azure-security-keyvault-secrets</artifactId>
-            <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
-            <artifactId>azure-storage-blob</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>azure-storage-file-datalake</artifactId>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
@@ -119,10 +75,6 @@
                 </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
-            <artifactId>azure-storage-file-datalake</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
             <artifactId>azure-eventhubs</artifactId>
@@ -132,6 +84,10 @@
                     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
                     <artifactId>*</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
                     <artifactId>*</artifactId>
@@ -140,6 +96,12 @@
                     <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
                     <artifactId>*</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <!-- adal4j drags in an older oauth2-oidc-sdk; the shared, newer one
+                     comes in below through msal4j and is routed to lib/core. -->
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.nimbusds</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
                     <artifactId>*</artifactId>
@@ -193,5 +155,202 @@
                 </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>azure-core</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>azure-core-http-netty</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>azure-identity</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>azure-json</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>azure-security-keyvault-secrets</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>azure-storage-blob</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>azure-storage-common</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>azure-storage-internal-avro</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>azure-xml</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>msal4j</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
+            <artifactId>msal4j-persistence-extension</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.nimbusds</groupId>
+            <artifactId>nimbus-jose-jwt</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
+            <artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.squareup.okio</groupId>
+            <artifactId>okio</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.squareup.okio</groupId>
+            <artifactId>okio-jvm</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.projectreactor</groupId>
+            <artifactId>reactor-core</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
+            <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jna-platform</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.minidev</groupId>
+            <artifactId>json-smart</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.jetbrains</groupId>
+            <artifactId>annotations</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
+            <artifactId>kotlin-stdlib</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.jspecify</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jspecify</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>
+            <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.reactivestreams</groupId>
+            <artifactId>reactive-streams</artifactId>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/plugins/tech/azure/src/assembly/assembly.xml b/plugins/tech/azure/src/assembly/assembly.xml
index a964f593e88..843a5918567 100644
--- a/plugins/tech/azure/src/assembly/assembly.xml
+++ b/plugins/tech/azure/src/assembly/assembly.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     <files>
         <file>
             <source>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/version.xml</source>
-            <outputDirectory>plugins/tech/azure</outputDirectory>
+            <outputDirectory>${hop.plugin.libdir}</outputDirectory>
             <filtered>true</filtered>
         </file>
     </files>
@@ -38,90 +38,7 @@
         </fileSet>
     </fileSets>
 
-    <dependencySets>
-        <dependencySet>
-            <includes>
-                <include>org.apache.hop:hop-tech-azure:jar</include>
-            </includes>
-            <outputDirectory>plugins/tech/azure</outputDirectory>
-        </dependencySet>
-        <dependencySet>
-            <scope>runtime</scope>
-            <excludes>
-                <exclude>org.apache.hop:hop-tech-azure:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>org.jetbrains:annotations:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>org.jetbrains.kotlin::jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>io.netty::jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>io.projectreactor.netty::jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.github.stephenc.jcip:jcip-annotations:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>joda-time:joda-time:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.squareup.okio::jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>io.projectreactor:reactor-core:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>org.reactivestreams:reactive-streams:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.fasterxml.jackson.core:*</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:*</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:*</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.fasterxml.jackson.module:*</exclude>
-                <exclude>org.slf4j:*</exclude>
-                <exclude>net.java.dev.jna::jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.microsoft.azure:msal4j-persistence-extension:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.microsoft.azure:msal4j:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.nimbusds:oauth2-oidc-sdk:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.azure:azure-core:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.azure:azure-identity:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.azure:azure-core-http-netty:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.azure:azure-json:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.microsoft.azure:azure-keyvault-core:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.azure:azure-security-keyvault-secrets:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.azure:azure-storage-blob:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.azure:azure-storage-common:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.azure:azure-storage-internal-avro:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.azure:azure-xml:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>net.minidev:*:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>org.ow2.asm:asm:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>org.jctools:jctools-core:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>org.jspecify:jspecify:jar</exclude>
-                <exclude>com.nimbusds:lang-tag:jar</exclude>
-            </excludes>
-            <outputDirectory>plugins/tech/azure/lib</outputDirectory>
-        </dependencySet>
-        <dependencySet>
-            <scope>runtime</scope>
-            <includes>
-                <include>org.jetbrains:annotations:jar</include>
-                <include>org.jetbrains.kotlin::jar</include>
-                <include>io.netty::jar</include>
-                <include>io.projectreactor.netty::jar</include>
-                <include>io.projectreactor:reactor-core:jar</include>
-                <include>com.github.stephenc.jcip:jcip-annotations:jar</include>
-                <include>joda-time:joda-time:jar</include>
-                <include>com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:jar</include>
-                <include>com.squareup.okio::jar</include>
-                <include>org.reactivestreams:reactive-streams:jar</include>
-                <include>net.java.dev.jna::jar</include>
-                <include>com.microsoft.azure:msal4j-persistence-extension:jar</include>
-                <include>com.microsoft.azure:msal4j:jar</include>
-                <include>com.nimbusds:oauth2-oidc-sdk:jar</include>
-                <include>com.azure:azure-core:jar</include>
-                <include>com.azure:azure-identity:jar</include>
-                <include>com.azure:azure-core-http-netty:jar</include>
-                <include>com.azure:azure-json:jar</include>
-                <include>com.microsoft.azure:azure-keyvault-core:jar</include>
-                <include>com.azure:azure-security-keyvault-secrets:jar</include>
-                <include>com.azure:azure-storage-blob:jar</include>
-                <include>com.azure:azure-storage-common:jar</include>
-                <include>com.azure:azure-storage-internal-avro:jar</include>
-                <include>com.azure:azure-xml:jar</include>
-                <include>com.nimbusds:nimbus-jose-jwt:jar</include>
-                <include>net.minidev:*:jar</include>
-                <include>org.ow2.asm:asm:jar</include>
-                <include>org.jctools:jctools-core:jar</include>
-                <include>org.jspecify:jspecify:jar</include>
-                <include>com.nimbusds:lang-tag:jar</include>
-            </includes>
-            <outputDirectory>lib/core</outputDirectory>
-        </dependencySet>
-    </dependencySets>
+    <componentDescriptors>
+        <componentDescriptor>${maven.multiModuleProjectDirectory}/assemblies/shared/hop-plugin-libs.xml</componentDescriptor>
+    </componentDescriptors>
 </assembly>