diff --git a/skeleton-typescript-aspnetcore/src/skeleton/karma.conf.js b/skeleton-typescript-aspnetcore/src/skeleton/karma.conf.js
index f7ece8fec..979bf59ae 100644
--- a/skeleton-typescript-aspnetcore/src/skeleton/karma.conf.js
+++ b/skeleton-typescript-aspnetcore/src/skeleton/karma.conf.js
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ module.exports = function(config) {
     systemjs: {
       configFile: 'wwwroot/config.js',
       config: {
+        meta: {
+          typescript: {
+            format: "global",
+            exports: "ts"
+          }
+        },
         paths: {
           "*": "*",
           "src/*": "src/*",
diff --git a/skeleton-typescript-aspnetcore/src/skeleton/package.json b/skeleton-typescript-aspnetcore/src/skeleton/package.json
index e77224236..ac218a8a1 100644
--- a/skeleton-typescript-aspnetcore/src/skeleton/package.json
+++ b/skeleton-typescript-aspnetcore/src/skeleton/package.json
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     "run-sequence": "^1.2.2",
     "systemjs": "0.19.35",
     "tslint": "^3.13.0",
-    "typescript": "^2.2.1",
+    "typescript": "^2.3.1",
     "typings": "^1.3.2",
     "vinyl-paths": "^2.1.0",
     "yargs": "^4.8.1"
diff --git a/skeleton-typescript/karma.conf.js b/skeleton-typescript/karma.conf.js
index 5423a8ae3..b37a57e86 100644
--- a/skeleton-typescript/karma.conf.js
+++ b/skeleton-typescript/karma.conf.js
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ module.exports = function(config) {
     systemjs: {
       configFile: 'config.js',
       config: {
+        meta: {
+          typescript: {
+            format: "global",
+            exports: "ts"
+          }
+        },
         paths: {
           "*": "*",
           "src/*": "src/*",
diff --git a/skeleton-typescript/package.json b/skeleton-typescript/package.json
index a4a7bb446..a3a05f453 100644
--- a/skeleton-typescript/package.json
+++ b/skeleton-typescript/package.json
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
     "run-sequence": "^1.2.2",
     "systemjs": "0.19.40",
     "tslint": "^3.15.1",
-    "typescript": "2.2.1",
+    "typescript": "^2.3.1",
     "typings": "^2.0.0",
     "vinyl-paths": "^2.1.0",
     "yargs": "^6.3.0"