This does not replace ADFS for User Authentication (especially "Single Signon"), but does provide "same signon".
The big issue that I found was how to determine what version of DIRSYNC that I had installed, and how to determine if a new download was required.
It turns out that this is not so easy. To be honest, as much as I admire Microsoft for how thoroughly they have documented Office365, they are painful in their inconsistency on some things.
Normally I would assume that at the very least that the install of any version would have a version number in "Programs and Features".
I installed what was the current version on June 2, (this was released Jan 30,2013) and this is what is displayed:
Note that the Size and Version are blank. (Cheeses guys).
Anyway, now that I have downloaded and installed the version available today ( or more accurately as of June 21,2013) you will see that it properly displays a version, 1.0.6411.007.
This information is also in the Details of the install file DIRSYNC.EXE.
Here are the details regarding 3 versions of DIRSYNC.EXE that I am aware of.
This is the latest version, release June 21, that includes Password Sync
This is the previous version, release Jan 13, 2013. This version allowed me to configure a scope for synchronization, using miiclient.exe
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