diff --git a/smtk/CMakeLists.txt b/smtk/CMakeLists.txt
index 5c17004cd3f63d5799e959e9046feb816b88e77b..73d309994b14564c848201e060f6befd374ec414 100644
--- a/smtk/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/smtk/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -113,6 +113,15 @@ target_link_libraries(smtkCore
   LINK_PUBLIC ${smtkCore_public_link_libraries}
   LINK_PRIVATE ${smtkCore_private_link_libraries})
 
+if (WIN32)
+  # Boost 1.70 and above have CMake configuration provided by upstream. Usage
+  # requirements are not quite resolved yet.
+  # https://github.com/boostorg/boost_install/issues/18
+  target_compile_definitions(smtkCore
+    PRIVATE
+      BOOST_UUID_FORCE_AUTO_LINK)
+endif ()
+
 smtk_export_header(smtkCore CoreExports.h)
 if (NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS AND SMTK_ENABLE_PYTHON_WRAPPING)
   # Set position-independent flag when other project libs are shared.
diff --git a/smtk/extension/paraview/appcomponents/pqSMTKAttributePanel.cxx b/smtk/extension/paraview/appcomponents/pqSMTKAttributePanel.cxx
index 1bd88605fe41afc1bc14f43ebd15d19c2a07bf11..e304dd7cdab2dad0d5054e1e8745845c7c9004b4 100644
--- a/smtk/extension/paraview/appcomponents/pqSMTKAttributePanel.cxx
+++ b/smtk/extension/paraview/appcomponents/pqSMTKAttributePanel.cxx
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 #include "pqCoreUtilities.h"
 #include "pqPipelineSource.h"
 
-#include "vtkSMGlobalPropertiesProxy.h"
 #include "vtkSMProperty.h"
 #include "vtkSMPropertyHelper.h"
 #include "vtkSMProxy.h"
@@ -150,9 +149,7 @@ bool pqSMTKAttributePanel::displayResource(const smtk::attribute::ResourcePtr& r
   // Start watching the resource's associate PV server for user preference changes.
   pqServer* server = pqActiveObjects::instance().activeServer();
   vtkSMSessionProxyManager* pxm = server ? server->proxyManager() : nullptr;
-  auto paletteProxy = pxm
-    ? vtkSMGlobalPropertiesProxy::SafeDownCast(pxm->GetProxy("global_properties", "ColorPalette"))
-    : nullptr;
+  auto paletteProxy = pxm ? pxm->GetProxy("settings", "ColorPalette") : nullptr;
   auto defaultValueColorProp =
     paletteProxy ? paletteProxy->GetProperty("SMTKDefaultValueBackground") : nullptr;
   auto invalidValueColorProp =
diff --git a/smtk/extension/vtk/io/CMakeLists.txt b/smtk/extension/vtk/io/CMakeLists.txt
index 7c806fab3061dd948653d7dd5abaf113dedb3a8d..65acf3ecf24ea8d277ff494bc22b474962327cfd 100644
--- a/smtk/extension/vtk/io/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/smtk/extension/vtk/io/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -84,8 +84,10 @@ target_include_directories(smtkIOVTK
 smtk_public_headers(smtkIOVTK ${headers})
 
 # add to the VTK module export set
+set(PROJECT_NAME_save "${PROJECT_NAME}")
 set(PROJECT_NAME SMTKVTKModules)
 smtk_install_library(smtkIOVTK)
+set(PROJECT_NAME "${PROJECT_NAME_save}")
 
 if (SMTK_ENABLE_PYTHON_WRAPPING)
   add_subdirectory(pybind11)
diff --git a/smtk/extension/vtk/reader/vtk.module b/smtk/extension/vtk/reader/vtk.module
index d1c633d2b0c59a549d357f98e52aaf9bd8d9f7d9..7399998a7892504c8b1f8b2cdc1c0a93b0cb4ef2 100644
--- a/smtk/extension/vtk/reader/vtk.module
+++ b/smtk/extension/vtk/reader/vtk.module
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 NAME
   vtkSMTKReaderExt
-CONDITION
-  SMTK_ENABLE_REMUS_SUPPORT
 DEPENDS
   VTK::CommonCore
   VTK::CommonDataModel
@@ -20,4 +18,5 @@ PRIVATE_DEPENDS
   VTK::IOXML
   VTK::InfovisLayout
   VTK::vtksys
+OPTIONAL_DEPENDS
   vtkSMTKMeshingExt