I came across a weird issue this week regarding the Record Centre in MOSS I thought I would share...

The record centre was created and configured as per the “book”. We were however unable to send documents to it resulting in the following error: "Value does not fall within expected range".

We were using the same App Pool as the Portal. Using a separate App Pool didn’t make any difference.

After hours of troubleshooting and swearing, it turned out to be related to Alternate Access Mappings (AAM).

It strangely appears that the fix was to include the URL of the portal itself (not the Netbios name if the server) as the “Default URL”.

To make it even worse, the Record Centre now works even though configured in CA using Netbios name of server in the URL e.g. http://servername/Records/_vti_bin/officialfile.asmx.

I haven't quite figured out is this is a bug or I'm missing something here but I thought I would share it. It may help someone else. :-)