I became aware of the PST issue when my company transitioned to the New Outlook some time ago when my configured customer PST simply disappeared. I believe a workaround would be to create a folder under an existing email account, copy the data from the PST files to the new folder(s) then switch to the new Outlook. I haven't tried it but I plan to. More @Wikipedia
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