I implemented Hard Close at several clients and I agree that it is much more granular in the way it allows you to control by user (and I think group in the newer version) how many periods future and prior you are allowed to post in as well as by module. One issue they were having with 6.5 and 7.0 was...

According to the information in recent Jeff Suwyn's Convergence Presentation (SL-01) on Dynamics-SL V7.0 Feature Pack 1, which will be released sometime in Q4 2008 (by current estimates), the hard close feature is slated to be included. However, the hard close available in FP1 will be global , not...

Hi AM. I checked in with the Dynamics SL team and they had this to say/ This feature will be part of the core Dynamics SL product with the next release. Until then, many customers have had great success using the third party offering from Ironware that provides this functionality. Hope this helps Craig