Windows Server 2008 Locks up "Configuring Updates"

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/winserverhyperv/thread/106471aa-cc0e-40c8-b5c1-d863bb8e2aed How to clean up pending updates and/or pending ‘on reboot’ action for windows 2008 / windows 2008 r2

Windows Server 2008 Locks up "Configuring Updates"

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/winserverhyperv/thread/106471aa-cc0e-40c8-b5c1-d863bb8e2aed How to clean up pending updates and/or pending ‘on reboot’ action for windows 2008 / windows 2008 r2

Windows Server 2008 Locks up "Configuring Updates"

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/winserverhyperv/thread/106471aa-cc0e-40c8-b5c1-d863bb8e2aed How to clean up pending updates and/or pending ‘on reboot’ action for windows 2008 / windows 2008 r2

Ksplice: Rebootless Linux kernel security updates

http://web.mit.edu/ksplice/ new way (hopefully will be mainstream soon) to apply updates to linux kernel"on the fly", i.e w/out need to reboot. The system is more or less a hack at this moment.