Performance counter definition file is invalid

Question

I've been trying to resolve some of the many issues I've run into after installing Exchange 2013 CU2 as a fresh install before migrating my users from 2007.  We'd run into this bug that was generating a ton of event logs for missing performance counters:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2870416
It includes a PowerShell script to reregister all of the performance counters that come with Exchange 2013.  When running it on my servers, it generated an error for one of the performance counter definition files.
53 C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Setup\Perf\InfoWorkerMultiMailboxSearchPerformanceCounters.xml
New-PerfCounters : The performance counter definition file is invalid.
At line:6 char:4
+    New-PerfCounters -DefinitionFileName $f
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [New-PerfCounters], TaskException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=EXM-SNA-0001,RequestId=b7edcf81-0f96-4937-a4a7-3bc8f6165132,TimeStamp=10/10/2013 9:30:50 PM] 79EF1430,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.NewPerfCounters
I opened the files in Notepad and this one didn't have any obvious errors or differences in structure compared to the other files.  An internet search showed no one else reporting this error processing this file that I could find.  I'd be curious
if anyone else running CU2 is able to register this performance counter.
New-PerfCounters -DefinitionFileName "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Setup\Perf\InfoWorkerMultiMailboxSearchPerformanceCounters.xml"

Answer 1

That would take MS about 10 seconds to fix in a patch lol!  You seem to have strong working knowledge of the PerfCounters.  I just installed CU7 and have successfully worked through all of the counter issues with the exception of one: MSExchange
LiveIdBasicAuthentication.  I can't find the PerfCounter that I need to register anywhere and it is driving me nuts!  I clearly just need to install the counter, but I can't find the definition or really any information on it at all.  I even
replicated the the disks of the exchange server, extracted all of the archives in the installed directory and the source media, and indexed the contents of anything even remotely text based.  I can't find this file or a reference to it anywhere.  If
you Google it all you get back is some bogus torrent site! Hoping you'll be able to point me in the right direction...
Counter: MSExchange LiveIdBasicAuthentication
Definition File: LiveIdAuthenticationCounters.xml
Event ID 106 - MSExchange Common
Performance counter updating error. Counter name is Current Requests Pending, category name is MSExchange LiveIdBasicAuthentication. Optional code: 2. Exception: The exception thrown is : System.InvalidOperationException: The
requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly.
Performance Counters Layout information: FileMappingNotFoundException for category MSExchange LiveIdBasicAuthentication : Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.FileMappingNotFoundException: Cound not open File mapping for name Global\netfxcustomperfcounters.1.0msexchange
liveidbasicauthentication. Error Details: 2
ExchangeSetup.log (Same Old Error - Setup point to wrong Perf Folder)
[02.14.2015 04:31:01.0238] [2] [WARNING] The performance counter definition file D:\Exchange\Bin\Perf\AMD64\LiveIdAuthenticationCounters.xml could not be found.
Parameter name: DefinitionFileName
[02.14.2015 04:31:01.0238] [2] [WARNING] The performance counter definition file D:\Exchange\Bin\Perf\AMD64\LiveIdAuthenticationCounters.xml could not be found.
Parameter name: DefinitionFileName
[02.14.2015 04:31:01.0238] [2] Ending processing new-PerfCounters
[02.14.2015 04:31:01.0238] [1] The following 1 error(s) occurred during task execution:
[02.14.2015 04:31:01.0238] [1] 0.  ErrorRecord: The performance counter definition file D:\Exchange\Bin\Perf\AMD64\LiveIdAuthenticationCounters.xml could not be found.