(Provided by running salt -versions-report. (Include debug logs if possible and relevant.)

(Please provide relevant configs and/or SLS files (Be sure to remove sensitive info).) Steps to Reproduce Issue As our host is a production server we don't want to allow internet access so that is not an option. But all I get when I try to install one of them (for instance, salt -G 'os:windows' pkg.install 'firefox') is the error as shown in the attached screenshot, indicating that the installer is trying to access the internet to complete.

Our expectation is that packages are installed in the Windows Package Manager repository (I see 235 installed packages by running salt -G 'os:windows' pkg.refresh_db) and installations happen from the local copy on the minion.

We just started looking at Salt and I am a newbie, so it could be a fault on my side, but I couldn't find an explanation in the docs, in existing issues reported, or on Google. I get errors indicating the installer needs internet access in order to install packages for Windows minions.

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