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June 20, 2025

Privileges for Managing Pools

An administrator must have certain privileges to manage pools in Omnissa Horizon Console.

The following table lists common pool management tasks and shows the privileges that are required to perform each task.

Pool Management Tasks and Privileges
TaskRequired Privileges
Enable or disable a farm, desktop, or application pool.Enable Farms, Desktops and Applications Pools
Entitle or unentitle users to a pool.Entitle Desktop and Application Pools
Add a pool.Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools Note: Not applicable for adding an unmanaged desktop pool. The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Modify or delete a pool.Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools Note: Not applicable for deleting an unmanaged desktop pool. The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Add or remove desktops from a pool.Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools Note: Not applicable for adding or removing unmanaged virtual desktops in the desktop pool. The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Schedule push image, schedule maintenance, and change the default image for a desktop pool and farm.Manage Maintenance Operations on Automated Desktops & Farms and Manage vCenter Configuration (Read only).
Change access groups.Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools on both the source and target access groups.

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