https://blog.north7.uk/ Field notes from the line where mountains meet the cloud. en-gb https://blog.north7.uk/posts/til-get-mgcontext-scopes/ https://blog.north7.uk/posts/til-get-mgcontext-scopes/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A two-line check that saves you from debugging a permissions error the hard way. https://blog.north7.uk/posts/loch-avon-low-cloud/ https://blog.north7.uk/posts/loch-avon-low-cloud/ Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Eleven kilometres around one of the Cairngorms' great hollows, most of it inside a cloud. A navigation day more than a views day. https://blog.north7.uk/posts/first-link/ https://blog.north7.uk/posts/first-link/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A short reaction to a long-awaited removal — and the thing that comes next, which nobody is talking about yet. https://blog.north7.uk/posts/hello-world/ https://blog.north7.uk/posts/hello-world/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A first-principles tour of a Conditional Access policy that's restrictive enough for compliance, lenient enough that the help desk isn't drowning, and self-documenting enough that the auditor can read it without a translator. https://blog.north7.uk/posts/expiring-app-secrets/ https://blog.north7.uk/posts/expiring-app-secrets/ Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT One Graph query, sorted by how soon it bites you. https://blog.north7.uk/posts/mg-graph-helpers/ https://blog.north7.uk/posts/mg-graph-helpers/ Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A small PowerShell module that wraps the parts of Microsoft Graph I reach for weekly — so paging, throttling, and scope checks stop being copy-paste. https://blog.north7.uk/posts/surviving-graph-throttling/ https://blog.north7.uk/posts/surviving-graph-throttling/ Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft Graph will throttle you. A 429 is not an error to log and move past — it is an instruction, and it tells you exactly how long to wait.