Windows updates stuck on cancelling on server

I had a similar situation with a server (i.e., not Exchange). What had happened is that there had been an uncerimonious shutdown, and prior updates were waiting for a restart. In this condition, the current update could not proceed. What I found, but moving the windows around, was that indeed, there was a request for restart buried at the back. Once I restarted the updates proceeded normally.

This is a long way of saying "are you sure there is no request for you to answer?"

If not, your only out may be to try to force a restart, but you want to hear that from at least two other people here before you do this.   .... T

Yes, I moved Windows around and found nothing. So I ended up just killing the updates with task manager and rebooting. Now I am trying applying updates a few at a time and so far they are working (haven't tried the problem one yet).

I finally managed to get all the updates successfully installed :). I did them one or two at a time with reboots inbetween and finally got them all to work.