Clarification on managing IIS in Windows 2012 remotely with powershell

 I'm having trouble understanding what I am reading. Is it still expected of us that we use remote calls vi PSSession to manage an IIS server with powershell in Windows 2012?  Do the management tools not just natively talk remotely to the IIS server? I realize this OS is new and there isn't a ton of documentation out there on this stuff (or at least it appears to be difficult to search for).  Advice and comments would be helpful. 

THanks!