In answer to this question Joel Coehoorn said
Finally, only after the site’s gone through a suitable QA process, the production server is updated from source control, not from within visual studio.
Does VSS Explorer have tools for deploying sites (via FTP, I would assume)? I noticed for the first time a Web/Deploy menu option, but it’s grayed out. How does this work?
Managing Web Content Using MS Visual SourceSafe
yes you can deploy via ftp or network share using the ‘web deploy’ feature in the VSS explorer.