Questions[prerequisites](server)

I Cannot promote a new Server 2012 R2 server to domain controller on an existing domain. The DC servers are 2008 and the new servers are server 2012 to promote the server the machine display The prerequisites check fails. Verification of prerequisites for Active Directory preparation failed. Unable to verify whether schema master has completed a replication cycle after last reboot.

Exception: Unavailable Critical Extension. Server extended error: 8366. Server extended message: 000020AE: SvcErr: DSID-03210384, problem 5010 (UNAVAIL_EXTENSION), data 8610
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Adprep failed to verify whether schema master has completed a replication cycle after last reboot.
[Status/Consequence]
The schema is not upgraded.
[User Action]
Check the log file ADPrep.log in the C:\Windows\debug\adprep\logs\20170227024251-test directory for possible cause of failure.

The Unified Messaging role in Exchange 2010 has the following prerequisites:

• Unified Communications Managed API 2.0
• Microsoft Speech Platform Server Runtime 10.1

But these components are obsolete, as the most recent ones (which are also used by Lync Server 2010) are:

• Unified Communications Managed API 3.0
• Microsoft Speech Platform Server Runtime 11.0

The question: does Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging work with these new components, or does it specifically require their previous releases?

This is a new deployment of Exchange Server 2010 SP2, so I'd like to avoid installing already-obsolete components if this is not an absolute requirement.

I'm trying to install the SP1 update to an RTM Exchange 2010 box. The Client Access Role Prerequisites are failing, complaining that KB979744 isn't installed.

I downloaded the update and tried to install it, however it will not install complaining that 'The update does not apply to your system'.

A discussion on TechNet indicates that I need .NET 2.0 or 3.5 installed (both are). Aside from that I've been unable to find anything helpful.

Hopefully someone has encountered this and knows how to get around it, don't really want to use up a support call on this.

Edit:

This is on a 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 Datacenter (without Hyper-V) SP2.

In SharePoint 2010 there is a prerequisite installer. There are options to install the prerequisites from a local source.

That's great, but is it also possible to tell the prerequitiinstaller to download the files and keep them in its prerequisite directory?

I don't want to download the files manually as it is a big pain in the back to get these files from the Microsoft website.

Apparently I deleted the default website on my server. That is, I have 3 and none seem to be the "Default", though one is listening on port 80 for blank headers. TFS wants one installed, how do I add it back?

Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition; IIS 5

Thanks.