diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/com/microsoft/azure/synapse/ml/nbtest/DatabricksUtilities.scala b/core/src/test/scala/com/microsoft/azure/synapse/ml/nbtest/DatabricksUtilities.scala
index 9c4fd67493..b293c77a0b 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/com/microsoft/azure/synapse/ml/nbtest/DatabricksUtilities.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/com/microsoft/azure/synapse/ml/nbtest/DatabricksUtilities.scala
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ object DatabricksUtilities {
   val Region = "eastus"
   val PoolName = "synapseml-build-10.4"
   val GpuPoolName = "synapseml-build-10.4-gpu"
-  val AdbRuntime = "10.4.x-scala2.12"
+  val AdbRuntime = "12.2.x-scala2.12"
   val AdbGpuRuntime = "10.4.x-gpu-ml-scala2.12"
   val NumWorkers = 5
   val AutoTerminationMinutes = 15
@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ object DatabricksUtilities {
     Map("pypi" -> Map("package" -> "onnxmltools==1.7.0")),
     Map("pypi" -> Map("package" -> "lightgbm")),
     Map("pypi" -> Map("package" -> "mlflow")),
-    Map("pypi" -> Map("package" -> "openai"))
+    Map("pypi" -> Map("package" -> "openai")),
+    Map("pypi" -> Map("package" -> "raiwidgets")),
+    Map("pypi" -> Map("package" -> "itsdangerous==2.0.1")),
+    Map("pypi" -> Map("package" -> "hyperopt")),
+    Map("pypi" -> Map("package" -> "scikit-learn"))
   ).toJson.compactPrint
 
   // TODO: install synapse.ml.dl wheel package here
diff --git a/notebooks/features/hyperparameter_tuning/HyperOpt-SynapseML.ipynb b/notebooks/features/hyperparameter_tuning/HyperOpt-SynapseML.ipynb
index 0911458fdb..f8952e8a1c 100644
--- a/notebooks/features/hyperparameter_tuning/HyperOpt-SynapseML.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/features/hyperparameter_tuning/HyperOpt-SynapseML.ipynb
@@ -32,9 +32,7 @@
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "# %pip install hyperopt\n",
-    "import os\n",
-    "\n",
-    "os.system(\"pip install hyperopt\")"
+    "# %pip install scikit-learn"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -54,8 +52,7 @@
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "# version >= 1.28.0 supports reading logModelAllowlistFile from url\n",
-    "# %pip install mlflow==1.29.0\n",
-    "os.system(\"pip install mlflow==1.29.0\")"
+    "# %pip install mlflow"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -71,12 +68,15 @@
     "\n",
     "if running_on_synapse_internal():\n",
     "    experiment_name = \"hyperopt-synapseml\"\n",
+    "    os.system(\"pip install mlflow\")\n",
     "elif running_on_synapse():\n",
     "    experiment_name = \"hyperopt-synapseml\"\n",
     "    # from notebookutils.visualization import display # use this display on interactive notebook\n",
     "    from synapse.ml.core.platform import (\n",
     "        materializing_display as display,\n",
     "    )  # display for pipeline testing\n",
+    "\n",
+    "    os.system(\"pip install mlflow\")\n",
     "else:\n",
     "    experiment_name = \"/Shared/hyperopt-synapseml\""
    ]
diff --git a/notebooks/features/isolation_forest/IsolationForest - Multivariate Anomaly Detection.ipynb b/notebooks/features/isolation_forest/IsolationForest - Multivariate Anomaly Detection.ipynb
index 3f288df84e..624eeebbfa 100644
--- a/notebooks/features/isolation_forest/IsolationForest - Multivariate Anomaly Detection.ipynb	
+++ b/notebooks/features/isolation_forest/IsolationForest - Multivariate Anomaly Detection.ipynb	
@@ -27,6 +27,27 @@
     " - If you are running it on Synapse, you'll need to [create an AML workspace and set up linked Service](https://microsoft.github.io/SynapseML/docs/next/mlflow/installation/). \n"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "First we install required dependencies and import the packages and define some UDFs we will need later.\n",
+    "When running Synapse Analytics, please follow instructions here [Package management - Azure Synapse Analytics | Microsoft Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/spark/apache-spark-azure-portal-add-libraries) to install [\"raiwidgets\"](https://pypi.org/project/raiwidgets/) and [\"interpret-community\"](https://pypi.org/project/interpret-community/) packages."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": true
+   },
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# %pip install raiwidgets\n",
+    "# %pip install itsdangerous==2.0.1\n",
+    "# %pip install interpret-community"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {
diff --git a/notebooks/features/responsible_ai/Interpretability - Explanation Dashboard.ipynb b/notebooks/features/responsible_ai/Interpretability - Explanation Dashboard.ipynb
index 134564dc48..eb0e937004 100644
--- a/notebooks/features/responsible_ai/Interpretability - Explanation Dashboard.ipynb	
+++ b/notebooks/features/responsible_ai/Interpretability - Explanation Dashboard.ipynb	
@@ -15,7 +15,27 @@
     "\n",
     "In this example, similar to the \"Interpretability - Tabular SHAP explainer\" notebook, we use Kernel SHAP to explain a tabular classification model built from the Adults Census dataset and then visualize the explanation in the ExplanationDashboard from https://github.com/microsoft/responsible-ai-widgets.\n",
     "\n",
-    "First we import the packages and define some UDFs we will need later."
+    "First we install required dependencies and import the packages and define some UDFs we will need later."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "When running Synapse Analytics, please follow instructions here [Package management - Azure Synapse Analytics | Microsoft Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/spark/apache-spark-azure-portal-add-libraries) to install [\"raiwidgets\"](https://pypi.org/project/raiwidgets/) and [\"interpret-community\"](https://pypi.org/project/interpret-community/) packages."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": true
+   },
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# %pip install raiwidgets\n",
+    "# %pip install itsdangerous==2.0.1\n",
+    "# %pip install interpret-community"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -312,36 +332,6 @@
     "        converted_importance_values.append(converted_list)"
    ]
   },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "source": [
-    "When running Synapse Analytics, please follow instructions here [Package management - Azure Synapse Analytics | Microsoft Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/spark/apache-spark-azure-portal-add-libraries) to install [\"raiwidgets\"](https://pypi.org/project/raiwidgets/) and [\"interpret-community\"](https://pypi.org/project/interpret-community/) packages."
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {
-    "collapsed": true
-   },
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "!pip install --upgrade raiwidgets\n",
-    "!pip install itsdangerous==2.0.1"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {
-    "collapsed": true
-   },
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "!pip install --upgrade interpret-community"
-   ]
-  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": null,