SharePoint and Web Development Instructor

Spike Xavier

Web Development, C#,CSS, SharePoint - Installation, administration and development. Spike is truly passionate about technology and loves working with people new to the industry.

Biography

MCITP: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator. MCTS: SharePoint 2010 Configuration, MCT: Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCDST: Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician, MCP: Microsoft Certified Professional, A+, A+ - IT Technician, Network+. ASP Insiders Group
Spike has been involved in technology for over 15 years. He started in the early days of e-commerce running the order processing and credit card authorizations for one of the largest gift companies in the world. He charted off into his own waters in 1995 by starting a company of his own which would become merch.com.  Merch.com grew from his bedroom into one of the largest on line e-commerce merchandisers in the world.  Serving as the official online store for such acts as: No Doubt, the Offspring, Social Distortion, Nine Inch Nails, Tony Hawk, Pink, Pennywise and many others.  It was during this time that Spike fell in love with web design and development. 
Spike is the Technical Editor for:

Spike wrote the cover article for  ASP.NET Pro magazine entitled "Master Your Domain" which was an article outlining step by step the process of using CSS for laying out Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0.

Spike is currently the director of the Arizona Share Point Professionals User Group.  The group meets once a month and features presentations and training on the latest in SharePoint technologies.

Twitter @staticvoidmain

Creating Hidden Columns in SharePoint 2010 http://t.co/461ptRrYmy

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How To Configure Versioning in SharePoint 2010 http://t.co/4Y8uiUcGvD

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Create a Team Site in SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell including Default Security Groups http://t.co/PFYmOl2LPY

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XML Data Source Weirdness in SharePoint Designer 2010 http://t.co/9BWastg7fS

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on a non technical note this is a cool blog post about the farm where my wife works on the rez @ramonafarms http://t.co/41WwajLZR1

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Blog

How to hide the Add Document Button in SharePoint 2010

Posted May 1, 2013

In one of my previous blog posts: Create a Custom Content Type In SharePoint 2010, I've received a number of similar questions, “Problem is that you STILL have an "Add Document" button! Furthermore, when you save the completed form, SharePoint is … Continue Reading

Connecting SharePoint 2010 Calendars To Outlook 2010 Calendars

Posted April 11, 2013

In this blog I'll connect an out of the box calendar list from a team site to my outlook calendar. This will allow me to quickly add dates to my SharePoint calendar and know that they are pushing down to … Continue Reading

Using PowerShell to create wildcard Managed Paths in SharePoint 2010

Posted April 6, 2013

Managed Paths allow us to extend Web Applications to hundreds of thousands of site collections without having to bother the I.T. Administration staff with a bunch of DNS entry requests. It's easy enough to go into Central Administration as a … Continue Reading