Office 365 and On Premise Active Directory Synchronisation

Hi everyone,
I'd really appreciate some advice about Office 365 and Active directory synchronisation.
We are a new business and to begin with started with a simple workgroup scenario with some office 365 mid-size business Office 365 Licenses.
We are now at the stage where we want to deploy active directory and I have some concerns about how we can set this up to use with our existing Office 365 setup.
From what I understand you can set up a link between AD and Office 365 (or hosted exchange) using ADFS or DirSync and Password sync however this all seems based on moving from On premise exchange to cloud based and not the other way around. Has anyone any
advise on how to setup the link/synchronisation between Office 365 and our new AD that we are deploying?
Many thanks in advance.
Alex.

Hi,
This is the forum to discuss questions and feedback for Office 365 client, better to post your question to the forum for Windows Server ADFS
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?category=windowsserver
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.
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