talk
Chat, calls and video meetings on your own server.
Talk carries the day-to-day conversation of the organization: direct messages, department rooms, video meetings and screen sharing, under the same sign-in and directory as Files and Calendar.
# lands-referrals
Sensitive
Referral response due Friday 4:00 — draft in Files / Lands / 2026
D. Sampson — Lands
09:14
Proponent sent revised maps. Filing to Lands / Referrals / RF-2026-041.
Attachment
09:15
RF-2026-041-response.odt
Stored in Files
R. Whitehead — Guest, legal
10:02
Reviewed clause 4. One change before it goes out — noted in the document.
Message #lands-referrals
chat and rooms
Direct messages, group rooms and guests
Talk holds the quick question between departments, the standing department room and the short-lived room for one file.
01
Rooms from the directory
Add people, groups or Teams to a room, so membership follows the directory as staff change.
02
Guests by link
Invite someone outside the organization into one conversation by link, with an optional password.
03
Replies, mentions and reactions
Reply to a message, mention a person or the room, react, and pin what the room needs to see.
04
Messages for the field
Voice messages, polls, location sharing, reminders on a message and scheduled sends.
calls and meetings
Audio, video and screen sharing
A call starts inside the conversation, so the room already holds the right people and the discussion that led to the meeting.
01
Calls in the room
Audio, video and screen sharing from the browser, the desktop app or the mobile app, with raised hands, reactions and background blur.
02
Lobby and moderation
Hold participants in a lobby until a moderator admits them, mute participants and control who may speak or share.
03
Scheduled in Calendar
Add a Talk room to a calendar event, so the invitation carries the link to the call.
Council session — in camera
On appliance
Chief
Councillor
Dial-in — 604
Lobby — 2 waiting for moderator
Recording — consent recorded, stored in Files
Media backend — EdgePod, local network
how it works
Inside Tsen’awt
Talk shares the sign-in, directory and file store of the Office.
Allocations FY2026
Sheet 1
Programme
Budget
Committed
Housing
412,000
388,140
Lands & Resources
260,500
191,220
Health services
305,000
305,000
Education
178,400
96,850
Total
1,155,900
981,210
Figures drawn from live records — no re-entry
Files shared into Files
A file shared in a conversation is stored in Files and opens in place for co-editing.
Conversations on a file
Start a conversation from a file’s sidebar, so the discussion sits with the document.
Workspace notifications
Workspace applications deliver their notifications by Talk as well as email, with a link and never the record’s name.
Event sessions
Sessions in the Events application each get their own Talk conversation.
built in
Conversations held by the organization
Accounts stay with the organization
Rooms and history belong to the organization’s server, not a personal account.
Owned
One directory
Rooms follow groups and Teams.
Directory
Files in one place
What is shared in a conversation is stored in Files.
Files
next step
Deploy the Office
Choose a seat tier for each person and where it is hosted.