diff --git a/app/queue-server/pom.xml b/app/queue-server/pom.xml
index 85ed682bee..5e97e07249 100644
--- a/app/queue-server/pom.xml
+++ b/app/queue-server/pom.xml
@@ -37,8 +37,34 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
             <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>SparseBitSet</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>commons-math3</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
             <version>5.0.0</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>
diff --git a/dependencies/phoebus-target/pom.xml b/dependencies/phoebus-target/pom.xml
index a3bbb29dfa..f8092396ee 100644
--- a/dependencies/phoebus-target/pom.xml
+++ b/dependencies/phoebus-target/pom.xml
@@ -498,6 +498,13 @@
       <version>2.1</version>
     </dependency>
 
+    <!-- required but Qserver applications -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-yaml</artifactId>
+      <version>2.19.1</version>
+    </dependency>
+
     <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.activemq/activemq-client -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>