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August 21, 2026

Privileges for Managing Machines

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

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

Machine Management Tasks and Privileges
Task Required Privileges
Remove a virtual machine. Manage Machine or Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools Note: Not applicable for removing unmanaged desktops or RDS hosts from the desktop pool or farm. The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Reset a virtual machine. Manage Reboot Operation
Restart a virtual desktop. Manage Reboot Operation
Update machine alias; Assign or remove user ownership. Manage Machine Alias and User Assignment
Enter or exit maintenance mode. Manage Machine Maintenance
Disconnect or log off sessions. Manage Sessions
Edit RDS HostManage Global Configuration and Policies
Shutdown VM(s)Manage Shutdown Operation

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