diff --git a/Directory.Build.props b/Directory.Build.props
index a4215ae3bc6c15..5c0df7c37ae704 100644
--- a/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/Directory.Build.props
@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@
   <!-- Import the Arcade SDK -->
   <Import Project="Sdk.props" Sdk="Microsoft.DotNet.Arcade.Sdk" />
 
+  <!-- MSBuild parallelism settings for better build performance.
+       See https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/cpp-build-throughput-investigation-and-tune-up/ -->
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <UseMultiToolTask>true</UseMultiToolTask>
+    <EnforceProcessCountAcrossBuilds>true</EnforceProcessCountAcrossBuilds>
+    <EnableClServerMode>true</EnableClServerMode>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
   <!-- The TFMs to build and test against. -->
   <PropertyGroup>
     <NetCoreAppCurrentVersion>11.0</NetCoreAppCurrentVersion>
diff --git a/src/coreclr/Directory.Build.props b/src/coreclr/Directory.Build.props
index 233bfbeacebf0c..2eab0816071b96 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/src/coreclr/Directory.Build.props
@@ -24,6 +24,5 @@
 
     <AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>false</AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>
     <SignAssembly Condition="'$(UsingMicrosoftNETSdk)' != 'true'">false</SignAssembly>
-    <CL_MPCount>$(NumberOfCores)</CL_MPCount>
   </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/coreclr/build-runtime.cmd b/src/coreclr/build-runtime.cmd
index b88cd359d6dce9..c373274f39a95d 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/build-runtime.cmd
+++ b/src/coreclr/build-runtime.cmd
@@ -266,18 +266,6 @@ echo %__MsgPrefix%Using CMake from !CMakePath!
 
 :SkipLocateCMake
 
-REM NumberOfCores is an WMI property providing number of physical cores on machine
-REM processor(s). It is used to set optimal level of CL parallelism during native build step
-if not defined NumberOfCores (
-    REM Determine number of physical processor cores available on machine
-    set TotalNumberOfCores=0
-    for /f "tokens=*" %%I in (
-        'wmic cpu get NumberOfCores /value ^| find "=" 2^>NUL'
-    ) do set %%I & set /a TotalNumberOfCores=TotalNumberOfCores+NumberOfCores
-    set NumberOfCores=!TotalNumberOfCores!
-)
-echo %__MsgPrefix%Number of processor cores %NumberOfCores%
-
 REM =========================================================================================
 REM ===
 REM === Start the build steps
diff --git a/src/tests/build.cmd b/src/tests/build.cmd
index 73691be70ac458..beea809039f83f 100644
--- a/src/tests/build.cmd
+++ b/src/tests/build.cmd
@@ -268,18 +268,6 @@ echo %__MsgPrefix%Commencing build of native test components for %__BuildArch%/%
 
 REM Set the environment for the native build
 
-REM NumberOfCores is an WMI property providing number of physical cores on machine
-REM processor(s). It is used to set optimal level of CL parallelism during native build step
-if not defined NumberOfCores (
-    REM Determine number of physical processor cores available on machine
-    set TotalNumberOfCores=0
-    for /f "tokens=*" %%I in (
-        'wmic cpu get NumberOfCores /value ^| find "=" 2^>NUL'
-    ) do set %%I & set /a TotalNumberOfCores=TotalNumberOfCores+NumberOfCores
-    set NumberOfCores=!TotalNumberOfCores!
-)
-echo %__MsgPrefix%Number of processor cores %NumberOfCores%
-
 @if defined _echo @echo on
 
 set __ExtraCmakeArgs=