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Subsites vs sites
Take a look at SharePoint Hub Sites which allows you to connect multiple sites together (similar to the subsite concept). SharePoint Hub Sites give you a shared navigation, search across the hub and web parts to support rollup of news, associated sites and highlighted content
If you're a global or SharePoint admin in Office 365, you can convert any existing site (communication or team site) to a hub site using Microsoft PowerShell. Create a hub site in SharePoint Online
When a MS Team is created it creates a site collection (team site) which can them be connected to the hub sites Associate a SharePoint site with a hub site
You can also use a site design to automate the joining of a newly created site to an existing hub site by using the joinHub site script action. For info about how to create the site script and site design, see SharePoint site design and site script overview.
Hope this helps
MicrosoftAnne...a few things to consider:
- When creating a new MS Team, yes you do get a new SharePoint team site to store documents/calendar etc. Consider creating a "channel" for each of the different teams in the same department. Even though they are related by the same department they still function somewhat independent.
- In each Channel you create you can create a new tab to go to the respective document library in the SharePoint team site.
- Subsites are not being replaced or phased out. It's recommended to keep you're hierarchy "flat" and not create a lot of sub sites. This makes it more flexible and easier to manage.
HTH.