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

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

Table 1. Pool Management Tasks and Privileges
Task Required Privileges
Enable or disable a desktop pool Enable Farms and Desktop Pools
Entitle or unentitle users to a pool Entitle Desktop and Application Pools
Add a pool Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools
Modify or delete a pool Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools
Add or remove desktops from a pool Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools
Refresh, Recompose, Rebalance, or change the default View Composer image Manage Composer Desktop Pool Image
Change access groups Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools on both the source and target access groups.