@george1421 It looks like the apple T2 chips encrypt the drives at rest, but only 2 or 3 of the 5 partitions for the apfs volume. not sure if anyone knew of a way to bypass this from happening. I am able to boot the mac after transferring but looks like it loses all user information and can not login.

One last problem we encounter, WE are able to capute and deploy an image now, however the drive seems to be encrypted so we are unable to transfer to another machine or in the event the drive is wiped. What step am I missing in the image capture to ensure the image can be used elsewhere?

Thank you! this worked perfectly!

In trying to image macbook 16,1 I am able to disable the T2 chip and boot using iPxe boot media into fog server. It pulls the files needed, however when it loads hard drive and or partition maps it is unable to find it. I even formatted as ms-dos and mac journaled from apfs to be safe. unfortunately without success. please help!