Jeremy Jameson, Principal Consultant at Microsoft, has written a blog post that provides high level walkthrough of the build and deployment process according to his experience. Walkthrough contains serious of illustrations explaining key concepts at different phases of software development process including Development and build environments, versioning and source control etc.
Jeremy guides through the various illustration for the Build and deployment Process in the projects in which he is involved. The figure above represents initial build and deployment of the solution. It contains number of machines each labeled and setup for different purposes in the whole software Build and Deployment process as explained by him.
This walkthrough is important and very helpful for those who are looking for effective Build and Deployment processes at this scale for Microsoft Technologies.