diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index 8d06616a817..94614b55af1 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
     <XUnitRunnerVisualStudioVersion>2.8.2</XUnitRunnerVisualStudioVersion>
     <!-- MEVD is still part of the Semantic Kernel repo -->
     <MicrosoftExtensionsVectorDataAbstractionsVersion>9.7.0</MicrosoftExtensionsVectorDataAbstractionsVersion>
-    <MicrosoftSemanticKernelConnectorsVersion>1.66.0-preview</MicrosoftSemanticKernelConnectorsVersion>
+    <MicrosoftSemanticKernelConnectorsVersion>1.67.0-preview</MicrosoftSemanticKernelConnectorsVersion>
     <MarkdigSignedVersion>0.43.0</MarkdigSignedVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.csproj b/src/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.csproj
index 69f905a8cab..7fed6252b7c 100644
--- a/src/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.csproj
+++ b/src/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion.csproj
@@ -23,4 +23,9 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
+  <ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFrameworkIdentifier)' == '.NETFramework'">
+    <!-- Workaround https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel/issues/13316 -->
+    <PackageReference Include="System.Text.Json" VersionOverride="$(SystemTextJsonVersion)" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion/Writers/VectorStoreWriter.cs b/src/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion/Writers/VectorStoreWriter.cs
index 6d4d34f5274..f231ac6535b 100644
--- a/src/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion/Writers/VectorStoreWriter.cs
+++ b/src/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion/Writers/VectorStoreWriter.cs
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ public sealed class VectorStoreWriter<T> : IngestionChunkWriter<T>
     private readonly VectorStore _vectorStore;
     private readonly int _dimensionCount;
     private readonly VectorStoreWriterOptions _options;
-    private readonly bool _keysAreStrings;
 
     private VectorStoreCollection<object, Dictionary<string, object?>>? _vectorStoreCollection;
 
@@ -43,12 +42,6 @@ public VectorStoreWriter(VectorStore vectorStore, int dimensionCount, VectorStor
         _vectorStore = Throw.IfNull(vectorStore);
         _dimensionCount = Throw.IfLessThanOrEqual(dimensionCount, 0);
         _options = options ?? new VectorStoreWriterOptions();
-
-        // Not all vector store support string as the key type, examples:
-        // Qdrant: https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel/blob/28ea2f4df872e8fd03ef0792ebc9e1989b4be0ee/dotnet/src/VectorData/Qdrant/QdrantCollection.cs#L104
-        // When https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel/issues/13141 gets released,
-        // we need to remove this workaround.
-        _keysAreStrings = vectorStore.GetType().Name != "QdrantVectorStore";
     }
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -85,7 +78,7 @@ public override async Task WriteAsync(IAsyncEnumerable<IngestionChunk<T>> chunks
             var key = Guid.NewGuid();
             Dictionary<string, object?> record = new()
             {
-                [KeyName] = _keysAreStrings ? key.ToString() : key,
+                [KeyName] = key,
                 [ContentName] = chunk.Content,
                 [EmbeddingName] = chunk.Content,
                 [ContextName] = chunk.Context,
@@ -129,7 +122,7 @@ private VectorStoreCollectionDefinition GetVectorStoreRecordDefinition(Ingestion
         {
             Properties =
             {
-                new VectorStoreKeyProperty(KeyName, _keysAreStrings ? typeof(string) : typeof(Guid)),
+                new VectorStoreKeyProperty(KeyName, typeof(Guid)),
 
                 // By using T as the type here we allow the vector store
                 // to handle the conversion from T to the actual vector type it supports.