* Update vcpkg to 2024.02.14 Release
A blank install of vcpkg did not work anymore due to changes in upstream repos. Had to update vcpkg.exe to latest to ensure download of libraries works as expected.
Had to update baseline to 2024.02.14 to be able to compile on VS 17.12. A bug related to naming of boost was fixed in boost 1.84
https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/38980
* Bump to a more recent vcpkg due to a build error in arrow
https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/42027
* Avoid fmt 11 due to a bug for MSVC
https://github.com/gabime/spdlog/issues/3251#issue-2648376977
* Remove obsolete GRPC config in top-level CMake
* Avoid pinning of Protobuf
