Create Test Environment - Best Practice

HI all..
Please, someone know which is the best practice to create a environment test from our company DB for testing purpose?
OUR SCENARIO:
SAP B1 9.1 PL 6
MSSQL 2008 R2
Integration service activated
WINDOWS 2008 R2 Ent Edition for client machine and server machine
Thank's in advance
--LUCA

Hi Manish..
I would like to have a copy of our company DB for testing purpose..
It's not important integration service.
We would like to test 9.1 PL 06 BoM new features without modify the rpoduction environment...
Thank's
--LUCA

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