What should a Citrix Administrator create before configuring Power Management for a desktop group?

Policies govern session behavior and user environment settings; they are not a prerequisite for enabling or configuring power management on a desktop group.

A hosting connection establishes authenticated connectivity to the underlying hypervisor or cloud platform and exposes the resource pool to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. Power management features - such as scheduled power-on, power-off, and suspend - rely on this connection to issue commands to the hypervisor. Without it, the power management configuration has no target infrastructure to act on.

An Administrator account with the Host Administrator role is not required as a prerequisite; the hosting connection itself - not an administrator role - is what power management depends on.

The Machine Catalog Administrator role manages catalog lifecycle tasks and is not a prerequisite for power management configuration on a desktop group.