diff --git a/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.ps1 b/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.ps1
index 0b8355860..85ad32cc2 100644
--- a/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.ps1
+++ b/plugins/provisioners/salt/bootstrap-salt.ps1
@@ -65,7 +65,28 @@ Write-Host "Downloading Salt minion installer $minionFilename"
 $webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
 $url = "https://repo.saltstack.com/windows/$minionFilename"
 $file = "C:\tmp\salt.exe"
-$webclient.DownloadFile($url, $file)
+
+[int]$retries = 0
+Do {
+ try {
+    $retries++
+    $ErrorActionPreference='Stop'
+    $webclient.DownloadFile($url, $file)
+    break
+ } catch [Exception] {
+    if($retries -eq 5) {
+        $_
+        $_.GetType()
+        $_.Exception
+        $_.Exception.StackTrace
+        Write-Host
+        exit 1
+    }
+    Write-Warning "Retrying download in 2 seconds. Retry # $retries"
+    Start-Sleep -s 2
+    }
+}
+Until($retries -eq 5)
 
 
 # Install minion silently
diff --git a/plugins/provisioners/salt/provisioner.rb b/plugins/provisioners/salt/provisioner.rb
index c703c4cc1..d5aade262 100644
--- a/plugins/provisioners/salt/provisioner.rb
+++ b/plugins/provisioners/salt/provisioner.rb
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ module VagrantPlugins
           @machine.communicate.upload(bootstrap_path.to_s, bootstrap_destination)
           @machine.communicate.sudo("chmod +x %s" % bootstrap_destination)
           if @machine.config.vm.communicator == :winrm
-            bootstrap = @machine.communicate.sudo("powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -file %s %s" % [bootstrap_destination, options]) do |type, data|
+            bootstrap = @machine.communicate.sudo("powershell.exe -NonInteractive -NoProfile -executionpolicy bypass -file %s %s" % [bootstrap_destination, options]) do |type, data|
               if data[0] == "\n"
                 # Remove any leading newline but not whitespace. If we wanted to
                 # remove newlines and whitespace we would have used data.lstrip