The Problem This issue can happen to developers who are trying to install the Sitecore 10 instance. Developers may start getting following error - "Failed to start service Sitecore XConnect Search Indexer" When developers will check in xConnect event log, they will observe that the exception is about a missing required. Below are entries in the log file for the same (XConnect.log file) - 2023-06-12 10:03:15.286 +05:30 [Error] Failed to start the indexer host System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Sitecore.Nexus.Licensing.LicenseException: Required license is missing: Sitecore.xDB.Base at .( , String ) at Sitecore.XConnect.Configuration.Extensions.InitializeLicenseCheck(IServiceCollection collection, String licenseFileOrXml) at Sitecore.XConnect.Configuration.Extensions.UseXConnectServiceInitializationConfigurati
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